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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation, trespass |
| Synonyms: | breach, crime, delinquency, fault, infraction, lapse, malfeasance, misdeed, misdemeanor, peccadillo, sin, transgression, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | obedience |
| Main Entry: | offense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger, hard feelings |
| Synonyms: | annoyance, conniption, displeasure, explosion, fit, flare-up, huff, indignation, ire, miff, needle, outburst, pique, resentment, scene, tantrum, tizzy, umbrage, wounded feelings, wrath |
| Antonyms: | happiness, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | abomination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wrongdoing |
| Synonyms: | crime, offense, wrong |
| Antonyms: | benefit, right |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wrong use |
| Synonyms: | corruption, crime, debasement, delinquency, desecration, exploitation, fault, injustice, misapplication, misconduct, misdeed, mishandling, mismanage, misuse, offense, perversion, prostitution, sin, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical hurting, injuring |
| Synonyms: | crime, damage, defilement, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, malevolence, maltreatment, manhandling, misdeed, offense, pollution, violation, wrongdoing |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
| Antonyms: | aid, help, preservation, respect |
| Main Entry: | affront |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | an insult |
| Synonyms: | abuse, backhanded compliment, brickbat, dirty deed, indignity, injury, left-handed compliment, offense, outrage, provocation, put-down, slap in the face, slap, slight, slur, vexation, wrong |
| Notes: | effrontery means shameless boldness or insulting presumptuousness while an affront is a deliberately offensive act or open insult |
| Antonyms: | appeasement, compliment, pleasantry |
| Main Entry: | aggression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attack, often military |
| Synonyms: | assailment, assault, blitz, blitzkrieg, encroachment, injury, invasion, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, push, raid |
| Main Entry: | atrocity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruelness, offensiveness; widely condemned action |
| Synonyms: | abomination, barbarity, brutality, crime, enormity, evil, horror, infamy, inhumanity, iniquity, monstrosity, offense, outrage, ruthlessness, savagery, viciousness, wrong |
| Antonyms: | kindness, pleasantness |
| Main Entry: | attack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical assault |
| Synonyms: | advance, aggression, assailing, assailment, barrage, blitz, blitzkrieg, charge, defilement, dirty deed, drive, encounter, encroachment, foray, incursion, initiative, inroad, intervention, intrusion, invasion, irruption, mugging, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, outbreak, push, raid, rape, rush, skirmish, storming, strike, thrust, violation, volley |
| Antonyms: | aid, defense, flight, protection, resistance, retreat, shelter, shield, support, surrender, sustenance |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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