Definition of insult

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Insult (v. t.) To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him..

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Affront :: Affront (n.) Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.
Disturb :: Disturb (v. t.) To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy..
Patience :: Patience (n.) The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc..
Taunt :: Taunt (v. t.) To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.
Insulting :: Insulting (a.) Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc..
Trample :: Trample (v. t.) Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.
Frump :: Frump (v. t.) To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
Insultment :: Insultment (n.) Insolent treatment; insult.
Insultable :: Insultable (a.) Capable of being insulted or affronted.
Flout :: Flout (n.) A mock; an insult.
War :: War (n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities..
Affront :: Affront (v. t.) To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.
Insult :: Insult (v. i.) To leap or jump.
Revenge :: Revenge (v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer..
Assault :: Assault (n.) To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces..
Charivari :: Charivari (n.) A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult..
Fig :: Fig (n.) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico..
Rabble :: Rabble (v. t.) To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate..
Mockery :: Mockery (n.) Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult..
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