insult

(ĭn-sŭltˈ)

1. a. To treat with gross insensitivity, insolence, or contemptuous rudeness. See Synonyms at offend.
   b. To affront or demean: an absurd speech that insulted the intelligence of the audience.
2. Obsolete To make an attack on.

1. To behave arrogantly.
2. To give offense; offend: a speech that was intended to insult.

1. An offensive action or remark.
2. a. Medicine A bodily injury, irritation, or trauma.
   b. Something that causes bodily injury, irritation, or trauma: “the middle of the Bronx, buffeted and poisoned by the worst environmental insults that urban America can dish out” (William K. Stevens).

Related Forms:

• in·sultˈer noun

• in·sultˈing·ly adverb