Verb

(en verb)

(transitive)  To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.

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(intransitive)  To feel or become offended, take insult.

(transitive)  To physically harm, pain.

(transitive)  To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.

(intransitive)  To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.

(transitive)  To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.

(obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical)  To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

* 1896 , Adolphus Frederick Schauffler, Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons , W. A. Wilde company, Page 161,

"If any man offend not (stumbles not, is not tripped up) in word, the same is a perfect man."

* New Testament'', Matthew 5:29 (''Sermon on the Mount ),

"If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out."

Verb

(exasperat)

To frustrate, vex, provoke, or annoy; to make angry.

* , Macbeth , act 3, sc. 6:

this report

Hath so exasperate the king that he

Prepares for some attempt of war.

* 1851 , , Moby Dick , ch. 3:

The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.

* 1853 , , Bleak House , ch. 11:

Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants; always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy, exasperating the public.

* 1987 , " Woman of the Year: Corazon Aquino," Time , 5 Jan:

[S]he exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield.

* 2007 , " Loyal Mail," Times Online (UK), 4 June (retrieved 7 Oct 2010):

News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.