Social life

Synonyms for offend

The synonym for offend recorded in this bank is break, in the sense "act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line

The synonym for offend

breakverb, in the sense "act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for offend.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineSocial life

act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

Offend all laws of humanity.

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The true synonym

break

Same sentence, swapped: Break all laws of humanity.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot offend is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

spite
outrage
disgrace

Where offend turns up in the game

offend is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play offend

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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