insult

  1. Verb.  (obsolete, intransitive) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against). (defdate, 16th-19th c.) .
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone). (defdate, from 17th c.) .
  3. Noun.  An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
  4. Noun.  Anything that causes offence/offense by being of an unacceptable quality.
  5. Noun.  (medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.

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