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Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.

ng no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance.

Inoffensive.

Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. How affrontive it is to despise mercy. South.

To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." Pope. To aggravate the horrors of the scene. Prescott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.…

An agent that destroys offensive smells; a deodorizer.

Armor: defensive and offensive arms. Celestial armory, shields, helms, and spears. Milton.

In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.

Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.

A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.

A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.

e or bottom of a ship or other vessel. It is often allowed to remain till it becomes very offensive. -- Bilge ways, the timbers which support the cradle of a ship upon the ways, and which slide upon the launching ways in launching the vessel.

A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive.

To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise. Coleridge.

t (Viverra civetta). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeble when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume.

To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse. To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. [Colloq.] De Quincey.

from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. Clear your mind of cant. Dr. Johnson. A statue lies hid…

Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.

Serving to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor. A moat defensive to a house. Shak.