offend

«offend» in Mova's school dictionary: To make someone upset, hurt or annoyed by what you say or do — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (offend, offends, offended, offending)

meaning for a pupil

1) To make someone upset, hurt or annoyed by what you say or do. tree →

2) To seem nasty or unpleasant to someone's senses: «The smell offended my nose.» tree →

3) (formal) To break a law or rule; to commit a crime. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and PSHE lessons, it is about kindness: thinking before you speak so you don't offend people. In formal or news language, «to offend» means to commit a crime; an «offender» is a criminal. Phrases: no offence, I don't mean to offend you, offend again.

examples

• I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. tree →
• His rude joke offended lots of people. tree →
• Bright lights offend my eyes at night. tree →
• The thief promised he would never offend again. tree →
• Try not to offend your friends by laughing at them. tree →
• Some words can offend people from other countries. tree →
• If there is anything in it that you are afraid may offend me, take courage, for I pardon you beforehand. tree →

note

Regular verb: offended. Noun: offence (UK) / offense (US); person: offender. «No offence» (UK) / «no offense» (US) is said before or after saying something that might upset. Adjective forms: offended (how you feel), offensive (what upsets).

In the corpora

• "No offence, but" warns that what comes next will offend.
• "ne obrazhaisya" means "don't be offended", said after a joke that hurt.
• A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
• For hath any said unto God: 'I have borne chastisement, though I offend not;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «offend» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.