English Dictionary

affront

IPA（発音記号）

/əˈfɹʌnt/

動詞

廃用

To insult intentionally, especially openly. / To meet defiantly; to confront. / (obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.

日本語の意味

故意に侮辱する、特に露骨に / 反抗的に対峙する、挑戦して向かい合う / (古語) 直接対面する

He attempted to affront his rival by publicly mocking her accomplishments.

彼はライバルを公然と侮辱するために、みんなの前で彼女の業績を嘲笑した。

意味（1）

To insult intentionally, especially openly.

But beſides, that ſuch a though was inconſiſtent with the gravity of a Senate, how can one imagine that the Fathers would have dared affront the Wife of Aurelius, and the Mother of Commodus, or that they could think of giving offence to an Empreſs whom they afterwards Defied, and to an Emperor that was the darling of the army and people?

意味（2）

To meet defiantly; to confront.

to affront death

意味（3）

(obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.

Many Iſlands there lie all over that ſea : but one above the reſt, and moſt renowned, is Tazata : for thither all the ſhipping from out of the Caſpian ſea and the Scythian Ocean, doe bend their courſe and there arrive : for that all the ſea coaſts doe affront the Levant, and turne into the Eaſt.

affronts （ present singular third-person ）

affronting （ participle present ）

affronted （ participle past ）

affronted （ past ）