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offense

noun
/əˈfɛns/

Etymology

From Middle English offence, from Old French offense, from Latin offensa (“a striking against; displeasure; injury”).

  1. derived from offensa
  2. derived from offense
  3. inherited from offence

Definitions

  1. The act of offending.

  2. The state of being offended or displeased

    The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.

  3. A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score

    A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defense.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so

      The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; contrasted with defense.

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Derived

capital offense, criminal offense, cyberoffense, Daffy Duck offense, hanging offense, hanging offence, hurry-up offense, indictable offense, indictable offence, lesser included offense, no offense, offence to be taken into consideration, offenseful, offenseless, offensensitivity, offensible, offensive and defensive alliance, primary offense, regulatory offense, regulatory offence, shotgun offense, status offense, summary offense, summary offence, take offense, the best defense is a good offense, West Coast offense

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at offense. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at offense. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at offense

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA