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English
Verb
take offense (third-person singular simple present takes offense, present participle taking offense, simple past took offense, past participle taken offense)
- To feel (and usually to show) resentment at another's actions or words.
- Synonyms: take umbrage, take exception, resent, take amiss
Translations
to feel and possibly show resentment
- Afrikaans: wip
- Armenian: նեղանալ (hy) (neġanal), խռովել (hy) (xṙovel)
- Azerbaijani: küsmək (az), incimək (az)
- Czech: urazit (cs) se
- Finnish: loukkaantua (fi)
- French: s’offenser (fr)
- Galician: afrontarse, anoxarse, ofenderse (gl)
- German: beleidigt (de) sein, gekränkt (de) sein, sich beleidigt (de) fühlen (de)
- Hindi: बुरा मानना (burā mānnā), रूठना (hi) (rūṭhnā)
- Hungarian: megsértődik (hu), megbántódik (hu), zokon vesz (hu), rossz néven vesz, megorrol (hu)
- Italian: offendersi (it), aversene a male, prendersela
- Polish: obrażać się impf, obrazić się pf
- Russian: обижа́ться (ru) impf (obižátʹsja), оби́деться (ru) pf (obídetʹsja)
- Spanish: ofenderse (es)
- Swedish: ta illa upp (sv)
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