different between offend vs sicken

English

Etymology

From Middle French offendre, from Latin offend? (“strike, blunder, commit an offense”), from ob- (“against”) + *fend? (“strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??f?nd/
• Hyphenation: of?fend
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

offend (third-person singular simple present offends, present participle offending, simple past and past participle offended)

1. (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
   • 1995 September, The Playboy Interview: Cindy Crawford, Playboy

     One day my girlfriend, her boyfriend and I were sunbathing topless because that's Barbados - you can wear nothing if you want. And the Pepsi guy walks up and with my agent to meet us for lunch. I wondered if I should put on my top because I have a business relationship with him. I didn't want him to get offended because the rest of the beach had seen me with my top off.

2. (intransitive) To feel or become offended; to take insult.

3. (transitive) To physically harm, pain.

4. (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.

5. (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
6. (transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
7. (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
   • 1896, Adolphus Frederick Schauffler, Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons, W. A. Wilde company, Page 161,

     "If any man offend not (stumbles not, is not tripped up) in word, the same is a perfect man."

   • New Testament, Matthew 5:29 (Sermon on the Mount),

     "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out."

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:offend.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:offend

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• offend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• offend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• end off

English

Etymology

From Middle English sekenen, equivalent to sick +? -en. Cognate with Danish sygne (“to pine”), Swedish sjukna (“to fall ill; become sick”), Norwegian sykne, Icelandic sjúkna (“to sicken; become sick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?k?n/

  Rhymes: -?k?n

Verb

sicken (third-person singular simple present sickens, present participle sickening, simple past and past participle sickened)

1. (transitive) To make ill.

   The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.

2. (intransitive) To become ill.

   I will sicken if I don’t get some more exercise.
3. (transitive) To fill with disgust or abhorrence.

   His arrogant behaviour sickens me.

4. (sports) To lower the standing of.
5. (intransitive) To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
6. (intransitive) To become disgusting or tedious.
7. (intransitive) To become weak; to decay; to languish.

Translations

Derived terms

• sickening

Anagrams

• sincke

German

Etymology

From Central Franconian secke (“to piss”), from Proto-Germanic *saikijan?, whence also archaic German seichen. The Central Franconian -ck- may be irregular or may be from a geminated variant Proto-Germanic *sikk?n? (compare German sickern). The figurative sense “to be annoyed, to complain” is also found in cognate Dutch zeiken. Compare English pissed off.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z?k?n/

Verb

sicken (weak, third-person singular present sickt, past tense sickte, past participle gesickt, auxiliary haben)

1. (regional, colloquial, western Germany) to piss

2. (regional, colloquial, western Germany) to be annoyed; to be pissed off; to complain

Usage notes

• The figurative sense is used chiefly in the colloquial progressive with am (as above).

Conjugation

Derived terms

• sickig

Swedish

Pronoun

sicken c sicket n sicka, sickna pl

1. (colloquial) what a; expresses a (often strong) feeling such as surprise, disappointment; liking, disliking

Synonyms

• vilken

Anagrams

• Nickes