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# offend

verb (offend, offends, offended, offending)

«offend» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To make someone upset, hurt or annoyed by what you say or do. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offend/#m1)
2. To seem nasty or unpleasant to someone's senses: «The smell offended my nose.» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offend/#m2)
3. (formal) To break a law or rule; to commit a crime. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offend/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offend/#x1)
- His rude joke offended lots of people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offend/#x2)
- Bright lights offend my eyes at night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offend/#x3)
- The thief promised he would never offend again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offend/#x4)
- Try not to offend your friends by laughing at them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offend/#x5)
- Some words can offend people from other countries. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offend/#x6)
- If there is anything in it that you are afraid may offend me, take courage, for I pardon you beforehand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offend/#x7)

### 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 Jewish tradition

Here it means to do wrong or sin. In the primary 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

- For hath any said unto God: 'I have borne chastisement, though I offend not; (Writings JOB.34.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offend/#x1)

### 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).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «offend» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offend/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«offend» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/offend.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «offend» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offend/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«offend» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/offend.html) on Mova free.