Word Definition
Insult
- To leap or jump.
- Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
- To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
- The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
- To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
- To behave with insolence; to exult.