abuse
Meaning of abuse
noun
- 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.
- Misuse; improper use; perversion.
- A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
- Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
- Catachresis.
- Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
- Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
- 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.
- To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
- To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
- 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.
- To violate; defile; to rape.
- Misrepresent; adulterate.
- To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
- Disuse.
Information about abuse
- The plural form of abuse is: abuses.
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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:
Meaning insult:
insult, revilement, contumely, vilification
Meaning misuse:
Meaning mistreat:
Meaning pervert:
Meaning clapperclaw:
clapperclaw, blackguard, shout
Meaning :
invective, opprobrium, reproach, scurrility, injure, revile, vilify, vituperate
Translation of abuse
- Portuguese: abuso, abusar
- Italian: insulto, abuso, abusare
- Spanish: abuso, insulto, abusar, violar, aprovecharse
- German: Beleidigung, Schmähung, Beschimpfung, Missbrauch, mißbrauchen, missbrauchen
- French: insulte, injure, abus
Anagrams of abuse
Words that rhyme with abuse
Antabuse, Mabuse, antabuse, disabuse, overabuse, reabuse, harquebuse, Libuse
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