Definition of abuse

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abuse

noun

improper, Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; perversion.

- Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power. - Madison
  1. physical, Physical maltreatment; injury.
  2. Sexual assault; violation; rape.
  3. An unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom; offense; crime; fault.
  4. coarse, Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language.
- The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of , came to blows. - Macaulay

Translations:

Dutch: f_{(nl, beschimpingen)}p
French: abus^(fr)m
German: Missbrauch (alternative MiíŸbrauch)
Italian: abuso^(it)m

verb (abus, ing)

(transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to one's authority.

- This principle (if one may so the word) shoots rapidly into popularity. - Froude
  1. (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty.
  2. (transitive) To rape; to assault; to ravish.
  3. (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile.
  4. (transitive) (obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on.
  Their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud, and abused by a double object. - Jeremy Taylor

Translations:

Dutch: nl^{(nl, beschimpen}}, t-)}uitschelden
French: abuser^(fr)
German: missbrauchen_(de)
Italian: violentare^(it)

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