| 1. to put a stumbling block or impediment in the way, upon which
another may trip and fall, metaph. to offend 1) to entice to sin 2) to cause a person to begin to distrust and desert one whom he ought to trust and obey 1b1. to cause to fall away 1b2. to be offended in one, i.e. to see in another what I disapprove of and what hinders me from acknowledging his authority 1b3. to cause one to judge unfavourably or unjustly of another 3) since one who stumbles or whose foot gets entangled feels annoyed 1c1. to cause one displeasure at a thing 1c2. to make indignant 1c3. to be displeased, indignant |