Usually means: Causes displeasure, anger, or hurt.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word offends:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. offends: Merriam-Webster
  2. offends: Collins English Dictionary
  3. offends: Vocabulary.com
  4. Offends, offends: Wordnik
  5. offends: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. offends: Wiktionary
  7. offends: Dictionary.com
  8. offends: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. offends: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. offends: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. offends: Idioms

(Note: See offend as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (offend)

verb:  (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
verb:  (intransitive) To feel or become offended; to take insult.
verb:  (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
verb:  (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
verb:  (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
verb:  (transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
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