OFFENDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does offending mean? 

• OFFENDING (adjective)
  The adjective OFFENDING has 1 sense:

1. offending against or breaking a law or rule

  Familiarity information: OFFENDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OFFENDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Offending against or breaking a law or rule

Context example:

contracts offending against the statute were canceled

Similar:

sinning (transgressing a moral or divine law)

offensive; violative (violating or tending to violate or offend against)

Antonym:

unoffending (not offending)

 Context examples 

Afraid of offending him by pursuing the subject when he made so light of it, I only pursued it in my thoughts as we went on at even a quicker pace than before.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You had better neglect your relations than run the risk of offending your patroness.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

White Fang sprang in a rage at the throat of the offending horse, but was checked by the master's voice.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Because food contains enzymes that can damage human tissue, the lining of the esophagus normally protects itself by producing its own enzymes that degrade the offending proteins and thus protect the lining.

(Eosinophilic esophagitis may be due to missing protein, National Institutes of Health)

Mugridge went down on the fore-hatch under three men; but he emerged from the mass like an eel, bleeding at the mouth, the offending shirt ripped into tatters, and sprang for the main-rigging.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Half-stunned by the blow, Buck was knocked backward and the lash laid upon him again and again, while Spitz soundly punished the many times offending Pike.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The adaptive immune response kicks in more slowly to build an army of cells that can target specific offending pathogens.

(Rapid-response immune cells are fully prepared before invasion strikes, NIH)

"And was that the head and front of his offending?" demanded Mr. Rochester.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If the impertinent remarks of Mrs. Jennings are to be the proof of impropriety in conduct, we are all offending every moment of our lives.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Bleeding that is disproportionate to the offending trauma.

(Easy Bleeding, NCI Thesaurus)