The difference between Insult and Slur
When used as nouns, insult means an action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude, whereas slur means an insult or slight.
When used as verbs, insult means to be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody), whereas slur means to insult or slight.
check bellow for the other definitions of Insult and Slur
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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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Slur as a noun:
An insult or slight.
Examples:
"a racial slur'"
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Slur as a noun (music):
A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
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Slur as a noun (music):
The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
Examples:
"coordinate terms tie id1=musical notation"
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Slur as a noun (obsolete):
A trick or deception.
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Slur as a noun:
In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
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Slur as a verb:
To insult or slight.
Examples:
"rfquotek Tennyson"
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Slur as a verb:
To run together; to articulate poorly.
Examples:
"to slur syllables;  He slurs his speech when he is drunk."
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Slur as a verb (music):
To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
Examples:
"rfquotek Busby"
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Slur as a verb:
To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
Examples:
"rfquotek Cudworth"
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Slur as a verb:
To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
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Slur as a verb:
To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
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Slur as a verb (printing, dated):
To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.