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Abuse   /əbjˈus/  /əbjˈuz/   Listen
Abuse

noun
1.
Cruel or inhumane treatment.  Synonyms: ill-treatment, ill-usage, maltreatment.
2.
A rude expression intended to offend or hurt.  Synonyms: contumely, insult, revilement, vilification.  "They yelled insults at the visiting team"
3.
Improper or excessive use.  Synonym: misuse.  "The abuse of public funds"
verb
(past & past part. abused; pres. part. abusing)
1.
Treat badly.  Synonyms: ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat, step.  "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"
2.
Change the inherent purpose or function of something.  Synonyms: misuse, pervert.  "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"
3.
Use foul or abusive language towards.  Synonyms: blackguard, clapperclaw, shout.  "The angry mother shouted at the teacher"
4.
Use wrongly or improperly or excessively.  "While she was pregnant, she abused drugs"



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"Abuse" Quotes from Famous Books



... pornography. See Osborne v. Ohio, 495 U.S. 103, 111 (1990) (holding that a state "may constitutionally proscribe the possession and viewing of child pornography"); Ferber, 458 U.S. at 757, 763 (noting that "[t]he prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse of children constitutes a government objective of surpassing importance," and holding that "child pornography [is] a category of material outside the protection of the First Amendment"). Thus, a public library's use of software filters survives strict ...
— Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
... began to abuse the swineherd. "You precious idiot," he cried, "what have you brought this man to town for? Have we not tramps and beggars enough already to pester us as we sit at meat? Do you think it a small thing that such people ...
— The Odyssey • Homer
... words Dora began to sob passionately, the servants, one and all, to comfort her, or to abuse Mostyn, and in the height of the hubbub Justice Manningham entered with two ...
— The Man Between • Amelia E. Barr
... the party leaders were told. "If he would abuse the other side a little more, and stick in a little tinsel and calcium ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford
... disgraced thing. We occupy separate apartments; and though we sit together at the same table, words rarely pass between us. Occasionally he comes home under the influence of wine, and then his abuse of me is fearful to think of. If any thing could waken a thoughtless creature sleeping on enchanted ...
— The Allen House - or Twenty Years Ago and Now • T. S. Arthur


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