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# offended

verb, past of offend; adjective (feel offended)

«offended» 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. Feeling hurt, upset or insulted by what someone said or did. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#m1)
2. Past form of offend: made someone upset. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#m2)
3. (formal) Broke a law. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories it tells the reader how a character feels after an insult; in PSHE it helps name a feeling. Phrases: be offended by, take offence, look offended, easily offended.

### Examples

- Mia was offended when nobody invited her. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#x1)
- He looked offended when I laughed at his drawing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#x2)
- I hope you aren't offended, but I prefer the blue one. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#x3)
- The joke offended my grandad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#x4)
- She is easily offended, so be kind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#x5)
- The man had offended before and went to prison. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#x6)
- ‘There! there!’ said the Fairy, ‘I am not offended. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#x7)

### Note

As an adjective it describes the person who feels hurt: «I am offended.» Do not mix with «offensive», which describes the thing that hurts: «an offensive joke». Past of offend (regular -ed).

## In Jewish tradition

Here it means that the butler and baker wronged Pharaoh, their lord, by doing something that displeased him or broke his trust. In the later books it also means to hurt or wrong someone, as in a brother who has been offended, or Edom who "greatly offended" Judah. In the primary lessons: In stories it tells the reader how a character feels after an insult; in PSHE it helps name a feeling. Phrases: be offended by, take offence, look offended, easily offended.

### Examples

- And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt. (Torah GEN.40.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offended/#x1)
- A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. (Writings PRO.18.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offended/#x2)
- Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; (Prophets EZK.25.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offended/#x3)

### Note

As an adjective it describes the person who feels hurt: «I am offended.» Do not mix with «offensive», which describes the thing that hurts: «an offensive joke». Past of offend (regular -ed).

## On Mova

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