Usually means: Offensive words intended to hurt.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word insults:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. insults: Merriam-Webster
  2. insults: Collins English Dictionary
  3. insults: Vocabulary.com
  4. Insults, insult's, insults: Wordnik
  5. insults: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. insults: Wiktionary
  7. insults: Dictionary.com
  8. insults: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Insults: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. insults: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. insults: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. insults: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insults: Idioms

(Note: See insult as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (insult)

verb:  (transitive) To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).
verb:  (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To assail, assault, or attack; (specifically, military) to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To leap or trample upon.
noun:  (uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.
noun:  (countable) Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).
noun:  (countable, uncountable, medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
noun:  (countable, also figuratively, archaic) An assault or attack; (specifically, military, obsolete) an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) An act of leaping upon.
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