fens/ noun 1. the state of be-ing offended  to take offence at to be of-fended by  He took offence at being called a

Plural form of line, education, plural A school punishment in which a student must repeatedly write out a line of text related to the offence (eg "I must be quiet in class") a specified number of times; the lines of text so written out, shipbuilding, plural Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of line