Sekirov Dictionary

insult

/ˈɪnsʌlt/

noun 5
/ɪnˈsʌlt/ verb 4
forms 6
phrases 2

noun5

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words or behavior that are rude to someone on purpose and show no respect for them
- To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! — 1988
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Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).
- The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.
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Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
- The exact nature of the teratological insult in diabetic pregnancy, and the cell biological details of the induced disturbances, are not known. — 1996
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(no longer used) An assault or attack; (specifically, military, obsolete) an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.
- The government was continually exposed to the insults of a faction, and destitute of the necessary resources. — 1784
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(no longer used) An act of leaping upon.
- The Bull's Insult at Four she [the mother cow] may sustain; / But, after Ten, from Nuptial Rites refrain. / Six Seasons use; but then release the Cow, / Unfit for Love, and for the lab'ring Plough. — 1697

insult

/ɪnˈsʌlt/

verb4

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To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).
- - Marvel owns your gods! - Insulting is not arguing.
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(no longer used) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone).
- Now with the drops of this most balmie time, / My loue lookes fresh, and death to me subscribes, / Since spight of him Ile liue in this poore time / While he insults ore dull and speachlesse tribes. — 1609
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(no longer used) To assail, assault, or attack; (specifically, military) to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.
- Giue me thy knife, I will insult on him, Flattering my selfes, as if it were the Moore, Come hither purposely to poyson me. — 1588
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(no longer used, rare) To leap or trample upon.
- So looks the pent-vp Lyon o're the Wretch, / That trembles vnder his deuouring Pawes: / And so he walkes, insulting o're his Prey, / And so he comes, to rend his Limbes asunder. — 1591

forms

insulted · insultedst · insulting · insulteth · insults · insultest

Phrases with insult

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