MEANING
To offend someone’s dignity through disrespect.
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Words that belong together
- affront someone’s dignity
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The accusation affronted her dignity.
His refusal affronted the host.
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Word forms
- Base
- affront
- Past tense
- affronted
- Past participle
- affronted
- Present participle
- affronting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- affront
- Present continuous
- am/is/are affronting
- Present perfect
- have/has affronted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been affronting
- Past
- affronted
- Past continuous
- was/were affronting
- Past perfect
- had affronted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been affronting
- Future
- will affront
- Future continuous
- will be affronting
- Future perfect
- will have affronted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been affronting
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: affront; affronts; affronted; affronted; affronting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: affronts.
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