meaning of insult
1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
3. To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
4. 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.
5. To leap or jump.
6. To behave with insolence; to exult.
7. a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront; "turning his back on me was a deliberate
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Related Words
insult | insultable | insultation | insulted | insulter | insulting | insultingly | insultment |
