offend

I (insult) verb abuse, affront, anger, annoy, be discourteous, be impolite, chagrin, displease, distress, disturb, embarrass, enrage, gall, horrify, hurt, incense, inflame, infuriate, injure, irk, irritate, laedere, madden, make angry, mortify, nettle, offendere, outrage, pain, pique, provoke, ridicule, rile, slight, snub, taunt, tease, treat with discourtesy, treat with indignity, vex, wound II (violate the law) verb break a law, break the law, commit a breach of the law, commit a crime, commit a fault, commit an infraction, commit offense, commit sin, contravene, disobey the law, disregard the law, err, infringe, infringe a law, misconduct oneself, peccare, transgress, trespass, violare III index affront, aggravate (annoy), annoy, antagonize, bait (harass), disoblige, distress, estrange, harry (harass), hector, humiliate, irritate, mistreat, persecute, pique, plague, provoke, repel (disgust), trespass