INSULT

vi to leap or jump.

2. insult ·vt the act of leaping on; onset; attack.

3. insult ·vt to leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.

4. insult ·vi to behave with insolence; to exult.

5. insult ·vt gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.

6. insult ·vt 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.