Usually means: Offensive remark causing anger, hurt.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word insult:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. insult: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. insult: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insult: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. insult: Collins English Dictionary
  5. insult: Vocabulary.com
  6. Insult, insult: Wordnik
  7. insult: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. insult: Wiktionary
  9. insult: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. insult: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. insult: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. insult: Dictionary.com
  13. insult (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. insult: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Insult (disambiguation), Insult (film), Insult (medical), Insult, The Insult (film), The Insult (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Insult: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. insult: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. insult: Rhymezone
  19. Insult: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. insult: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Insult: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. insult: Free Dictionary
  23. insult: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. insult: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Insult: World Wide Words
  26. insult: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insult: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. insult: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insult: Idioms

(Note: See insulted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).
verb:  (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To assail, assault, or attack; (specifically, military) to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To leap or trample upon.
noun:  (uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.
noun:  (countable) Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).
noun:  (countable, uncountable, medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
noun:  (countable, also figuratively, archaic) An assault or attack; (specifically, military, obsolete) an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) An act of leaping upon.

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