Shattered vs Offended - What's the difference?
shattered | offended |
(shatter)
physically broken into pieces
*{{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=30 emotionally defeated or dispirited
* 2000 Lionel Robbins, A history of economic thought: the LSE lectures, Princeton University Press, p221
* 2000 Nellie McHenry, Forbidden Dreams of Love, chapter 26
* 2010 Mary Alice Beasley, Shattered Lens: A Tale of Domestic Violence and Redemption Through Love, AuthorHouse, p261
(offend)
(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 (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,
* New Testament'', Matthew 5:29 (''Sermon on the Mount ),
As verbs the difference between shattered and offended
is that shattered is (shatter) while offended is (offend).As an adjective shattered
is physically broken into pieces.shattered
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(en adjective)citation, passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}
- Well, she died after seven years of marriage, and Mill thought that he was shattered', and ' shattered no doubt he was, in the sense of this absolutely irreparable emotional loss.
- She refused to see him for two days. He was shattered . He sent his apologies.
- Yes, he had gotten his revenge for my rejection. I was shattered but remained silent.
offended
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(head)offend
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(en verb)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?’.}}
- "If any man offend not (stumbles not, is not tripped up) in word, the same is a perfect man."
- "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out."
