Lesion vs Affront - What's the difference?
lesion | affront | Related terms |
A wound or injury.
(medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such patch of skin.
To insult intentionally, especially openly.
* Addison
To meet defiantly; to confront.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 436:
(obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
* Holland
* Shakespeare
An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
(obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.
Lesion is a related term of affront.
As nouns the difference between lesion and affront
is that lesion is lesion while affront is .lesion
English
(wikipedia lesion)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----affront
English
(wikipedia affront)Verb
(en verb)- How can anyone imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius?
- to affront death
- Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted .
- All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.
- That he, as 'twere by accident, may here / Affront Ophelia.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Such behavior is an affront to society.