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# offend

«offend» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To make someone upset, hurt or annoyed by what you say or do** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (offend, offends, offended, offending)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make someone upset, hurt or annoyed by what you say or do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offend/#m1)

2) To seem nasty or unpleasant to someone's senses: «The smell offended my nose.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offend/#m2)

3) (formal) To break a law or rule; to commit a crime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offend/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means to do wrong or sin. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and PSHE lessons, it is about kindness: thinking before you speak so you don't offend people. In formal or news language, «to offend» means to commit a crime; an «offender» is a criminal. Phrases: no offence, I don't mean to offend you, offend again.

### examples

- For hath any said unto God: 'I have borne chastisement, though I offend not; (Writings JOB.34.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offend/#x1)
- I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offend/#x2)
- His rude joke offended lots of people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offend/#x3)
- Bright lights offend my eyes at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offend/#x4)
- The thief promised he would never offend again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offend/#x5)
- Try not to offend your friends by laughing at them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offend/#x6)
- Some words can offend people from other countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offend/#x7)
- If there is anything in it that you are afraid may offend me, take courage, for I pardon you beforehand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offend/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: offended. Noun: offence (UK) / offense (US); person: offender. «No offence» (UK) / «no offense» (US) is said before or after saying something that might upset. Adjective forms: offended (how you feel), offensive (what upsets).

### In the corpora

- [A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.523/)
- [For hath any said unto God: 'I have borne chastisement, though I offend not;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.913/)
- ["No offence, but" warns that what comes next will offend.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/17/)
- ["ne obrazhaisya" means "don't be offended", said after a joke that hurt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «offend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/offend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.