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# offended

«offended» in Mova's school dictionary: **Feeling hurt, upset or insulted by what someone said or did** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, past of offend; adjective (feel offended)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Feeling hurt, upset or insulted by what someone said or did. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#m1)

2) Past form of offend: made someone upset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#m2)

3) (formal) Broke a law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it tells the reader how a character feels after an insult; in PSHE it helps name a feeling. Phrases: be offended by, take offence, look offended, easily offended.

### examples

- Mia was offended when nobody invited her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#x1)
- He looked offended when I laughed at his drawing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#x2)
- I hope you aren't offended, but I prefer the blue one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#x3)
- The joke offended my grandad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#x4)
- She is easily offended, so be kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#x5)
- The man had offended before and went to prison. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#x6)
- ‘There! there!’ said the Fairy, ‘I am not offended. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offended/#x7)

### note

As an adjective it describes the person who feels hurt: «I am offended.» Do not mix with «offensive», which describes the thing that hurts: «an offensive joke». Past of offend (regular -ed).

### In the corpora

- [Toad is offended — Mr.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/2/)
- ["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/)
- [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/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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