Verb

(en-verb)

To perform a jibe (2, 3).

To agree.

That explanation doesn't gibe with the facts.

To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).

(ambitransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.

* Jonathan Swift

Draw the beasts as I describe them, / From their features, while I gibe them.

* Jonathan Swift

Fleer and gibe , and laugh and flout.

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."