abuse

Meaning of abuse

noun
  1. Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
    All abuse, whether physical, verbal, psychological or sexual, is bad.
  2. Misuse; improper use; perversion.
  3. A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
  4. Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
  5. Catachresis.
  6. Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
  7. Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
verb
  1. To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert
    He abused his authority.
  2. To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
  3. To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
  4. To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually.
  5. To violate; defile; to rape.
  6. Misrepresent; adulterate.
  7. To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
  8. Disuse.

Information about abuse

Hyphenation of abuse

abuse

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • abuse is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

abuse synonyms

Meaning maltreatment:

maltreatment

Meaning insult:

insult, revilement, contumely, vilification

Meaning misuse:

misuse

Meaning mistreat:

mistreat, maltreat, step

Meaning pervert:

pervert, misuse

Meaning clapperclaw:

clapperclaw, blackguard, shout

Meaning :

invective, opprobrium, reproach, scurrility, injure, revile, vilify, vituperate

Translation of abuse

Anagrams of abuse

beaus

Words that rhyme with abuse

Antabuse, Mabuse, antabuse, disabuse, overabuse, reabuse, harquebuse, Libuse

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