Word Meanings - OFFEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall. Who hath you misboden or offended. Chaucer. If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out... And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off. Matt. v. 29, 3O. Great peace

Additional info about word: OFFEND

To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall. Who hath you misboden or offended. Chaucer. If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out... And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off. Matt. v. 29, 3O. Great peace have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend them. Ps. cxix. 165. (more info) 1. To strike against; to attack; to assail. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To displease; to make angry; to affront. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city. Prov. xviii. 19. 3. To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience. 4. To transgress; to violate; to sin against. Marry, sir, he hath offended the law. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OFFEND)

• Provoke
• Educe
• summon
• rouse
• irritate
• excite
• challenge
• vex
• impel
• offend
• exasperate
• anger
• tantalize
• Shock
• Surprise
• disgust
• dismay
• astound
• appall
• horrify
• shame
• Transgress
• Break
• violate
• pass
• disobey
• contravene
• sin
• infringe
• trespass
• Trip
• Bound
• skip
• taunt
• fail
• stumble
• mistake
• err
• fall

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OFFEND)

• To appease
• compose
• forbear
• allay
• soothe
• calm
• conciliate
• heal
• Hobble
• limp
• crawl
• creep
• shamble
• Pass
• allow
• grant
• concede
• Encourage
• rally
• inspirit
• assure
• allure

Related words: (words related to OFFEND)

• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• OFFENDANT
  An offender. Holland.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• SHAMEFAST
  Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• DISOBEYER
  One who disobeys.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• CONTRAVENE
  1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.