Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; a particular act or statement having this effect.
Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).
Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
An assault or attack; (specifically) an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.
An act of leaping upon.
(grammar) Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.
(grammar) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
(grammar) To apply a tense to.
A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.
The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.




