insult

insult has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• v. t.. The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
• v. t.. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
• v. t.. To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
• v. t.. 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.. To leap or jump.
• v. i.. To behave with insolence; to exult.
• n.. a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"
• n.. a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team"
• v.. treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone"