Office-boy

Definition

offend /ǝ'fend / v ၁။ (က) (esp passive) စိတ္အေႏွာင့္အယွက္၊ မေက်မနပ္ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ ေစာ္ကားရာေရာက္သည္။ She was offended at/by his sexist remarks. ❍ She may be offended if you don't reply to her invitation. ❍ TV programmers have to be careful not to offend. (ခ) မ်က္စိေနာက္သည္၊ နားကေလာသည္ စသျဖင့္ စိတ္အေႏွာင့္ အယွက္ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ an ugly building that offends the eye ❍ The colour scheme offends me. ၂။ ~ (against sb/sth) ျပစ္မႈက်ဴးလြန္သည္။ ေဖာက္ဖ်က္ရာက်သည္။ criminals who persistently offend ❍ ( fml ) His conduct offended against the rules of decent behaviour. ❏ offender n ဥပေဒခ်ဳိးေဖာက္သူ။ ျပစ္မႈက်ဴးလြန္သူ။ a persistent offender ❍ sex offenders. See also FIRST OFFENDER ❏ offending adj စိတ္အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ ေပးေသာ။ မေတာ္တေရာ္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ There were complaints, so the offending products were recalled to the factory and destroyed. ❍ The offending paragraph was deleted.

Examples

1. They avoided saying anything that might offend their audience.
2. The chairman did not seem offended by the criticism.
3. Over half the prisoners released had offended again within a year.
4. We will not publish material that may offend the sensibilities of our readers.
5. [offend against] : Legislation that offends against common sense
6. We feel both saddened and offended.