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Overlead :: Overlead (v. t.) To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity.

Affront :: Affront (v. t.) To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter..

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult..

Affront :: Affront (n.) An encounter either friendly or hostile.

Affront :: Affront (v. t.) To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.

Resentingly :: Resentingly (adv.) With a sense of wrong or affront; with resentment.

Insulting :: Insulting (a.) Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc..

Affrontee :: Affrontee (n.) One who receives an affront.

Affront :: Affront (n.) An offense to one's self-respect; shame.

Feud :: Feud (n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race..

Affront :: Affront (v. t.) To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

Affrontive :: Affrontive (a.) Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive.

Insult :: Insult (v. t.) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity..

Affrontingly :: Affrontingly (adv.) In an affronting manner.

Resent :: Resent (v. t.) In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at..

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

Confronte :: Confronte (a.) Same as Affronte.

Affronting :: Affronting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affron.

Affrontedly :: Affrontedly (adv.) Shamelessly.

Take :: Take (v. t.) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man..

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