Englishoffend
verb
1 I'm sorry if anything I said offended him:
hurt someone's feelings, give offense to, affront, upset, displease, distress, hurt, wound, pain, injure, be an affront to, get/put someone's back up, disgruntle, put out, annoy, anger, exasperate, irritate, vex, pique, gall, irk, provoke, rankle with, nettle, needle, peeve, tread on someone's toes, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, rub up the wrong way, make someone's hackles rise, insult, humiliate, embarrass, mortify, scandalize, shock, outrage, spite;
informal rile, miff, rattle, aggravate, get under someone's skin, hack off, get someone's goat, get to, bug;
British, informal nark, get on someone's wick, put someone's nose out of joint, get up someone's nose;
North American, informal tick off;
vulgar slang piss off.
2 he didn't smoke and the smell of ash offended him:
displease, be displeasing to, be distasteful to, be disagreeable to, be offensive to, cause offense to, upset, put off, disgust, repel, revolt, be repugnant to, repulse, turn someone's stomach, sicken, nauseate, make sick, make someone's gorge rise;
informal turn off;
North American, informal gross out.
▷antonyms please, delight.