The difference between Insult and Outrage
When used as nouns, insult means an action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude, whereas outrage means an excessively violent or vicious attack.
When used as verbs, insult means to be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody), whereas outrage means to cause or commit an outrage upon.
check bellow for the other definitions of Insult and Outrage
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Insult as a verb (transitive):
To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).
Examples:
"RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It act=III scene=v page=199 column=2 passage=And why I pray you? who might be your mother / That you inſult, exult, and all at once / Ouer the wretched?"
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Insult as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over or against someone).
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Insult as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
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Insult as a noun:
An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
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Insult as a noun:
Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
Examples:
"The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears."
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Insult as a noun (medicine):
Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.
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Insult as a noun (obsolete):
The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
Examples:
"rfquotek Dryden"
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Outrage as a noun:
An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
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Outrage as a noun:
An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
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Outrage as a noun:
The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
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Outrage as a noun (obsolete):
A destructive rampage.
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Outrage as a verb (transitive):
To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
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Outrage as a verb (archaic, transitive):
To violate; to rape (a female).
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Outrage as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To rage in excess of.
Examples:
"rfquotek Young"