Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to offend
Participle: offended
Gerund: offending
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | offend |
| you | offend |
| he;she;it | offends |
| we | offend |
| you | offend |
| they | offend |
Perfect
| I | have offended |
| you | have offended |
| he;she;it | has offended |
| we | have offended |
| you | have offended |
| they | have offended |
Past
| I | offended |
| you | offended |
| he;she;it | offended |
| we | offended |
| you | offended |
| they | offended |
Pluperfect
| I | had offended |
| you | had offended |
| he;she;it | had offended |
| we | had offended |
| you | had offended |
| they | had offended |
Future
| I | will offend |
| you | will offend |
| he;she;it | will offend |
| we | will offend |
| you | will offend |
| they | will offend |
Future Perfect
| I | will have offended |
| you | will have offended |
| he;she;it | will have offended |
| we | will have offended |
| you | will have offended |
| they | will have offended |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | offend |
| you | offend |
| he;she;it | offend |
| we | offend |
| you | offend |
| they | offend |
Perfect
| I | have offended |
| you | have offended |
| he;she;it | have offended |
| we | have offended |
| you | have offended |
| they | have offended |
Imperfect
| I | offended |
| you | offended |
| he;she;it | offended |
| we | offended |
| you | offended |
| they | offended |
Pluperfect
| I | had offended |
| you | had offended |
| he;she;it | had offended |
| we | had offended |
| you | had offended |
| they | had offended |
Conditional
Present
| I | would offend |
| you | would offend |
| he;she;it | would offend |
| we | would offend |
| you | would offend |
| they | would offend |
Perfect
| I | would have offended |
| you | would have offended |
| he;she;it | would have offended |
| we | would have offended |
| you | would have offended |
| they | would have offended |
Imperative
| you | offend |
| we | Let's offend |
| you | offend |
Verbs conjugated like 'offend'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'offend'
odfend,
defend,
effund,
fend,
fiend,
forfend,
obtend,
offer,
offlead,
onlend,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to evoke extreme anger in a person (or animal)
- awrath, gall, get one's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get to, honk off, inflame, infuriate, madden, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, nark, outrage, provoke, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rattle someone's cage, rile, roil, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, steam, enrage
- to hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult
- abuse, affront, burn, carry, cut down, dis, diss, give stick, heckle, hurt someone's feelings, insult, lapidate, misbid, misrespect, misuse, sledge, slight, sneap, wound
- To show a lack of respect to someone or something.
- disrespect
- figurative
- qualifier
- insult
- slight, affront, snub, gall, slur, antagonize, mortify
- transgress
- trespass, err, sin, stumble
- irritate
- annoy, anger, chafe, outrage, displease, nettle, vex, provoke
Antonyms
- to hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult
- commend, compliment, flatter, laud, praise, revere, talk up
- to hold in esteem; to have respect for
- despise, revere
- insult
- compliment, admiration, dignity, affection
- irritate
- appease, conciliate, delight, mollify
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1320, "to sin against (someone)," from M.Fr. offendre, from L. offendere "strike against, stumble, commit a fault, displease," from ob "against" + fendere "to strike" (found only in compounds). Meaning "to violate (a law), to make a moral false step, to commit a crime" is from 1382." Meaning "to wound the feelings" is from late 14c. The literal sense of "to attack, assail" is attested from c.1374; this has been lost in Mod.Eng., but is preserved in offense and offensive.
2. From Middle French offendre, from Latin offendō (“strike, blunder, commit an offense”), from ob- (“against”) + *fendō (“strike”).
Sample Sentences
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[...] enabled to find useful and profitable work for the inmates; whereas, with us, the prejudice against prison labour is naturally very strong, and almost insurmountable, when honest men who have not offended against the laws are frequently doomed to seek employment in vain. Even in the United States, the principle of bringing convict labour and free labour into a competition which must obviously be to [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] faces in their misery. How easy and how natural it was for him to say that the system was a good one; and that the time went ‘pretty quick—considering; ’ and that when a man once felt that he had offended the law, and must satisfy it, ‘he got along, somehow: ’ and so forth !
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and read it at his ease; I merely mention these traits as characteristic of the country: not at all as being matter of complaint, or as having been disagreeable to me. I should undoubtedly be offended by such proceedings at home, because there they are not the custom, and where they are not, they would be impertinencies; but in America, the only desire of a good-natured fellow of this kind, is to [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] to resent the near approach of a class of strangers, who, at home, would keep aloof. This characteristic, when it was tinctured with no foolish pride, and stopped short of no honest service, never offended me; and I very seldom, if ever, experienced its rude or unbecoming display. Once or twice it was comically developed, as in the following case; but this was an amusing incident, and not the rule, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] the contrary; and St. Clare, after all his promises of goodness, took a wicked pleasure in these mistakes, calling Topsy to him whenever he had a mind to amuse himself, and getting her to repeat the offending passages, in spite of Miss Ophelia's remonstrances.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] up from those same trim, neatly-arranged, respectable slave-prisons,—prayers which God has not forgotten, as a coming day shall show; for it is written, “ Who causeth one of these little ones to offend, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depths of the sea. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)