offends
Sayuh-FENDZ/əˈfɛndz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present indicative of offend.
The columnist regularly offends readers with deliberately provocative opinions.
Loud chewing at the table offends her more than almost anything else.
Note
The present-tense form for a single subject (he, she, it, a columnist, a smell), while every other subject takes plain offend. Most uses carry an object: something offends readers, offends the senses, offends a law. It can also stand without one, either in the older moral sense of doing wrong (whoever offends must answer for it) or in the rarer sense of taking offense oneself.
offends is a form of offend
offend, verb: To hurt someone's feelings, displease them, make them angry, or insult them. Full entry
- Spelling
- offend → offends: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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