'affront' definitions:
Definition of 'affront'
(from WordNet)
noun
A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult" [syn: insult, affront]
verb
Definition of 'affront'
From: GCIDE
- Pocket \Pock"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pocketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pocketing.]
- 1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change. [1913 Webster]
- He would pocket the expense of the license. --Sterne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently. [1913 Webster]
- He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- To pocket a ball (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table.
- To pocket an insult, affront, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. "I must pocket up these wrongs." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'affront'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aggrieve,
- aspersion,
- atrocity,
- barb,
- beard,
- bell the cat,
- bid defiance,
- bite the bullet,
- brave,
- brazen,
- brazen out,
- breast,
- brickbat,
- bring before,
- bring forward,
- bring up,
- call names,
- call out,
- casus belli,
- challenge,
- confront,
- confront with,
- contempt,
- contumely,
- criticize,
- cut,
- dare,
- defamation,
- defy,
- despite,
- dig,
- dishonor,
- disoblige,
- dispraise,
- double-dare,
- dump,
- dump on,
- encounter,
- enormity,
- envisage,
- face,
- face out,
- face the music,
- face up,
- face up to,
- face with,
- fleer at,
- flout,
- flouting,
- front,
- gibe,
- gibe at,
- give offense,
- give offense to,
- give umbrage,
- grieve,
- humiliate,
- humiliation,
- hurl a brickbat,
- hurt,
- hurt the feelings,
- indignity,
- injury,
- insult,
- jeer,
- jeer at,
- jeering,
- jibe at,
- lay before,
- meet,
- meet boldly,
- meet head-on,
- meet squarely,
- mock,
- mockery,
- offend,
- offense,
- outdare,
- outrage,
- place before,
- present to,
- provocation,
- put down,
- put it to,
- put-down,
- raw nerve,
- red rag,
- run the gauntlet,
- scoff,
- scoff at,
- scream defiance,
- scurrility,
- set at defiance,
- set before,
- show fight,
- slap,
- slight,
- sore point,
- sore spot,
- speak out,
- speak up,
- stand up to,
- stare down,
- stem,
- sting,
- taunt,
- tender spot,
- treat with indignity,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- wound