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Insult   /ɪnsˈəlt/  /ˈɪnsˌəlt/   Listen
noun
Insult  n.  
1.
The act of leaping on; onset; attack. (Obs.)
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. "The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief."
3.
(Med., Biology) An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes.
Synonyms: Affront; indignity; abuse; outrage; contumely. See Affront.


verb
Insult  v. t.  (past & past part. insulted; pres. part. insulting)  
1.
To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. (Obs.)
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.


Insult  v. i.  
1.
To leap or jump. "Give me thy knife, I will insult on him." "Like the frogs in the apologue, insulting upon their wooden king."
2.
To behave with insolence; to exult. (Archaic) "The lion being dead, even hares insult." "An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity."





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"Insult" Quotes from Famous Books



... he was a Radical, men said—was having garrisons turned out for his inspection. He would then dine with the Officer Commanding, and insult him, across the Mess table, about the appearance of the troops. That was ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling
... taken as an extreme example of the conditions among the unchanged tribes. The Garos tribe have an interesting marriage custom.[146] The girl chooses her lover and invites him to follow her; any advance made on his side is regarded as an insult to the woman's clan, and has to be expiated by presents. This marriage is very similar to the ceremony of capture, only the actors change parts; it is here the bridegroom who runs away, and is conducted by force to his future wife amidst ...
— The Truth About Woman • C. Gasquoine Hartley
... his apology had done much good. He felt that she had accepted both his insult and apology quite calmly, as though she had regarded ...
— The Wooden Horse • Hugh Walpole
... performed the operation satisfactorily. The same day Farquhar was dining at the table of Sir Theophilus Biddulph, when he noticed the dwarf there. Taking the opportunity of following his host out of the room, he asked for an explanation of his conduct, and said that he deemed it an insult to be seated in such inferior company. Amazed at the charge, Sir Theophilus assured the dramatist that every one of the guests was a gentleman, and that they were his particular friends. Farquhar was not ...
— At the Sign of the Barber's Pole - Studies In Hirsute History • William Andrews
... my fault. And then, when they came to meet you at the Museum, I had made you forget them; I'd made you wound them and insult them again. No. I've thought it all out, and we never could be happy. Don't think that I do ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells


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