Word
Insult
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
in-sult
Definition
- v. t. - The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
- v. t. - Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act;
an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
- v. t. - To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
- v. t. - To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt,
by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or
to sneer at him, is to insult him.
- v. i. - To leap or jump.
- v. i. - To behave with insolence; to exult.
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