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# affront

«affront» in Mova's school dictionary: **Verb: to insult someone openly, or to face something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (affront, affronts, affronted, affronting) and noun (an affront, affronts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Verb: to insult someone openly, or to face something bravely and boldly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affront/#m1)

2) Noun: an open insult or rude act toward someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affront/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, an insult to a person's honour, or a bold facing of danger

### examples

- Do not affront these dangers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affront/#x1)
- The vizir hid the affront they had received. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affront/#x2)
- His rude words affronted the whole court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affront/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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