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  1. to insult

    In a military sense, is to attack boldly and in open day, without going through the slow operations of trenches, working by mines and saps, or having recourse to those usual forms of war, by advancing gradually towards the object in view. An enemy is said to insult a coast when he suddenly appears upon it, and debarks troops with an immediate purpose to attack.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of to insult in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of to insult in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of to insult in a Sentence

  1. Recep Tayyip Erdogan:

    They deem the slightest challenging news and every criticism as an insult and either launch an investigation into the subject or prosecute.

  2. Thomas Abt:

    These conflicts ... can occur for surprisingly small things, an insult on social media, a dispute over a girlfriend and so on.

  3. Katie Hobbs:

    We have so many concerns about this exercise, i kind of don't want to call it an audit. I think that's an insult to professional auditors everywhere because they're making this stuff up as they go along.

  4. Felix Klein:

    The word Jew as an insult was not common when I went to school, now it is, and it's even an insult at schools where there are no Jewish students. That's a problem.

  5. Angela Yee:

    I do believe that this whole environment does make it women against women and we're kind of like insulting each other the same way that men insult us, so when we're talking about different bodies, 'Oh, she slept with this person,' 'She's this,' 'She's unattractive,' 'Oh, you got surgery,' this and that — all of those stabs are stabs that men take at women ... and I always feel like women need to be more supportive of each other.

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