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# offense

«offense» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wrong that someone does, a bad action or a crime** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (offense, offenses; British spelling «offence», offences)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An offense is a wrong that someone does, a bad action or a crime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offense/#m1)

2) An offense is something that hurts or insults someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offense/#m2)

3) In sport an offense is the team that is attacking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offense/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in tales the offense is the wrong a character does, such as a lie or a trick, which is then punished

### examples

- For this offense he was sent to prison. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offense/#x1)
- Calling her names was an offense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offense/#x2)
- Taking the cake without asking was his first offense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/offense/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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