Insult
Definition of Insult
In`sult´ | n. | 1. | | | 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; a deprecatory remark; an affront; an indignity. | | 3. | (Med., Biology) An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes. | | v. t. | 1. | | | 1. | To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. | | 2. | 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. | | v. i. | 1. | To leap or jump. | | 2. | To behave with insolence; to exult. |
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