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n. The act of causing anger, resentment, displeasure, or affront.

n. The state of being offended.

n. A violation or infraction of a moral or social code; a transgression or sin.

n. A transgression of law; a crime.

n. Something that outrages moral sensibilities: Genocide is an offense to all civilized humans.

n. The act of attacking or assaulting.

n. Sports The means or tactics used in attempting to score.

n. Sports A team in possession of the ball or puck, or those players whose primary duty is to attempt to score.

n. Sports Scoring ability or potential.

n. The act of offending; a crime or sin; an affront or injury.

n. The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.

n. (often IPA: /ˈɒ fɛns/) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defense.

n. (often IPA: /ˈɒ fɛns/) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; contrasted with defense.

n. The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury.

n. The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.

n. A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin.

n. In any contest, the act or process of attacking as contrasted with the act of defending; the offensive.

n. The members of a team who have the primary responsibility to score goals, in contrast to those who have the responsibility to defend, i.e. to prevent the opposing team from scoring goal.

n. Assault; attack: as, weapons or arms of offense.

n. Harm; hurt; injury.

n. Transgression; sin; fault; wrong.

n. Specifically, in law: A crime or misdemeanor; a transgression of law. It implies a violation of law for which the public authorities may prosecute, not merely one which gives rise to a private cause of action only. More specifically

n. A misdemeanor or transgression of the law which is not indictable, but is punishable summarily or by the forfeiture of a penalty.

n. Affront; insult; injustice; wrong; that which wounds the feelings and causes displeasure or resentment.

n. Displeasure; annoyance; mortification; umbrage; anger.

n. See the adjectives.

n. Synonyms Misdeed, fault, delinquency, indignity, trespass. Referring to the comparison under crime, it may be added that offense is a very indefinite word, covering the whole range of the others, while misdemeanor is a specific word, applying to an act which is cognizable by civil, school, family, or other authority, and does not appear in the aspect of an offense against anything but law or rules.

n. Indignation, resentment.

n. a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others

n. the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score

n. the action of attacking an enemy

n. a feeling of anger caused by being offended

n. (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act

"KEY RETURNEES: Crawford will be the man around whom the offense is again centered if he returns after averaging 20.5 points."

defense   

squad    team    ire    anger    choler   

transgression    attack    major offense    to take offense    to give offense    divisible offense    summary offense    sin    crime   

defense    offend    offender    offensive   

hanging offense   

anger    displeasure   

Spence    cents    commence    commonsense    condense    defence    defense    dense    dispense    expense   

offence    offenses    crime    offender    outrage    violation    robbery    mistake    treason    breach