Verb

(head)

(offend)

Verb

(en verb)

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

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearly crowned her we were so offended . She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’.}}

(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

(head)

(aggravate)

Verb

(aggravat)

To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.

To aggravate my woes. —

To aggravate the horrors of the scene. —.

The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. —Addison.

To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. — .

To exasperate; to provoke, to irritate.

* 1748 , (Samuel Richardson), Clarissa :

If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.

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, title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“It is a pity,” he retorted with aggravating meekness, “that they do not use a little common sense. The case resembles that of Columbus' egg, and is every bit as simple. […]”}}

* 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 85:

Ben Bella was aggravated by having to express himself in French because the Egyptians were unable to understand his Arabic.