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What is the verb for offense?

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offend
  1. (transitive)  To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
  2. (intransitive)  To feel or become offended, take insult.
  3. (transitive)  To physically harm, pain.
  4. (transitive)  To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
  5. (intransitive)  To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
  6. (transitive)  To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
  7. (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical)  To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
  8. Synonyms:
      9. wound, distress, upset, affront, outrage, annoy, insult, irritate, displease, provoke, gall, pique, vex, ruffle, disgruntle, hurt, slight, aggravate, anger, exasperate, rile, miff, nettle, agitate, disconcert, dismay, irk, needle, peeve, nark, pain, aggrieve, antagonise, antagonize, disrespect, diss, rattle, shock, spite, bug, dis, disturb, fret, injure, jar, mortify, snub, disoblige, embarrass, horrify … more
  9. Examples:
      10. “Gregory House is a maverick doctor with a gruff exterior who tends to offend his peers.”
      “Never again will I allow this nasty beverage to offend my tastebuds.”
      “He does not appear to be a young man who is likely to offend in the same manner again in the future.”
offending
  1. present participle of offend
  2. Synonyms:
      3. exciting, provoking, inciting, riling, stirring up, fomenting, impassioning, inflaming, rallying, roiling, rousing, stirring, triggering, aggravating, agitating, animating, electrifying, firing up, goading, inspiring, instigating, arousing, enthusing, galvanizing, incensing, irking, priming, ruffling, stimulating, whipping up, baiting, charging, egging on, eliciting, encouraging, enlivening, grilling, kindling, piquing, pumping up, revving up, setting off, vexing, vivifying, winding up, working up, activating, angering, awakening, bringing about … more
offends
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of offend
  2. Synonyms:
      3. wounds, distresses, upsets, affronts, outrages, annoys, insults, irritates, displeases, provokes, galls, piques, vexes, ruffles, disgruntles, hurts, slights, aggravates, angers, exasperates, riles, miffs, nettles, agitates, disconcerts, dismays, irks, needles, peeves, narks, pains, aggrieves, antagonises, antagonizes, disrespects, disses, rattles, shocks, spites, bugs, disturbs, frets, injures, jars, mortifies, snubs, disobliges, embarrasses, horrifies, humiliates … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The following sentence offends in another way and requires the hand of the emender as much as any passage in the original Greek.”
      “Pity the subject matter offends the sensibilities of anyone with an iota of respect for romance.”
      “I can ask that the searches and scrutiny be done in a professional manner, with no insults and nothing that offends my dignity.”
offendeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of offend
offendest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of offend
offended
  1. simple past tense and past participle of offend
  2. Synonyms:
      3. excited, provoked, incited, riled, stirred up, fomented, impassioned, inflamed, rallied, roiled, roused, stirred, triggered, aggravated, agitated, animated, electrified, fired up, goaded, inspired, instigated, aroused, enthused, galvanized, incensed, irked, primed, ruffled, stimulated, whipped up, baited, charged, egged on, elicited, encouraged, enlivened, grilled, kindled, piqued, pumped up, revved up, set off, vexed, vext, vivified, worked up, wound up, activated, angered, awakened … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Why watch a programme, broadcast well after the watershed, if you know you are going to be offended by it?”
      “I marched to those old Jody calls while serving my country and they didn't offend me and nobody around me was offended either.”
      “This probably offended the odd sensitive viewer, although Brown is so thunderingly wholesome that it seems unlikely.”
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