Definition of insult

• v. t. - The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
• v. t. - Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
• v. t. - To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. i. - To leap or jump.
• v. i. - To behave with insolence; to exult.