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▸ 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.
Similar:
affront,
revilement,
contumely,
abuse,
misuse,
misrespect,
misbid,
heap insult on injury,
misspeak,
offend,
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