Difference between revisions of "Abuse"

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English

Noun

1. Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; perversion.
2. Physical or verbal maltreatment; injury.
3. Forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another
4. An unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom; offense; crime; fault.
5. Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language.

Verb

Abuse (third-person singular simple present Abuses, present participle abusing, simple past and past participle abused)

1. (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 abuse one's authority.
2. (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty.
3. (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile.
4. (transitive) (obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on.

Adjectives for Abuse

political; unintelligible; intemperate; personal; treasonable; alarming; existing; scurrilous; sore; glaring; triumphant; abundant; filthy; scandalous; pernicious; tyrannical; alleged; disastrous; noisy; humorous; false; indiscriminate; stupid; mighty; virulent; intolerable; horrible; obscene; vicious; violent; flagrant; inhuman; profane; foul; notorious; barefaced; arrogant; shameful.

Verbs for Abuse

condone -; correct -; cry out at -; curb -; direct - against; drive to -; eliminate -; exchange -; brook-; check -; heap -; incur -; pour -; prevent -; reckon up -; remedy -; shovel - on; spare -; spy into -; stumble on -; subject to -; thunder -; tolerate -; wipe out -; - blackens; - damns; - prevails; -s are rife; -s reckon up.

Adverb for Abuse

grossly; scandalously; shamefully; intemperately; indiscriminately; alarmingly; profanely; notoriously; foully; arrogantly; barefacedly; scurrilously; perniciously; tyrannically; stupidly; virulently; mightily; obscenely; viciously; violently; inhumanly; flagrantly; heinously; malevolently; malignantly; noxiously; tempestuously; truculently; atrociously; hellishly; roughly;

Synonyms for Abuse

• noun

1. misuse, injure, violate, perversion, invective, invective, contumely, reproach, scurrility, insult, opprobrium
2. misusage, misemployment, misapplication, misappropriation,
3. addiction, dependence
4. maltreatment, ill-treatment, ill use, fault
5. self-abuse, self-pollution, masturbation, violation, defilement
6. corruption
7. revilement, reviling, execration, vituperation, malediction, imprecation, tongue-lashing, calumny, calumniation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, invective, maligning, upbraiding, berating, objurgation, scolding
8. billingsgate
9. vituperation, scorn, reproach, disgrace, ignominy, dishonor, infamy, slander, blame, humiliation, contempt.

• verb

1. misemploy, pervert, misapply, exploit.
2. maltreat, injure, revile, reproach, vilify, vituperate, asperse, traduce, malign, wrong, hurt, mistreat, manhandle, ill-treat, censure, upbraid, assail, objurgate, lambaste, berate, rebuke, scold, reproach, disparage, defame, insult, swear at, curse (at), calumniate, slander, libel, decry, deprecate, vilify, rail against, damage, harm, scandalize, depreciate, misuse, persecute, molest, aggrieve, oppress, desecrate, ruin, prostitute.

Antonyms for Abuse

praise, eulogize, favor, vindicate, conserve, applaud, shield, defend, cherish, protect, preserve, commend, uphold, benefit, respect, approve, honor, sustain, commendation, approval, sanction, respect, regard, panegyric, applause.

Thesaurus

abuse of office; addiction; afflict; aggrieve; assail; assailing; assault; atrocity; attack; bark at; batter; befoul; befoulment; belittle; berate; berating; betongue; betray; betrayal; bewitch; billingsgate; bitter words; blacken; blackening; blackguard; blaspheme; bleed; bleed white; blight; bruise; buffet; call names; calumniate; calumniation; calumny; catachresis; censure; condemn; contumely; conversion; convert; corrupt; corrupt administration; corruption; criminal assault; crucify; curse; cursing; cuss out; damage; damn; debase; debasement; debauch; debauchment; deceive; decry; defalcate; defalcation; defamation; defame; defile; defilement; defloration; deflower; deflowering; dependence; deprave; deprecate; depreciate; derogate; desecrate; desecration; despoil; despoilment; destroy; detract from; diatribe; disadvantage; discount; disparage; dispraise; disserve; distress; diversion; divert; do a mischief; do evil; do ill; do violence to; do wrong; do wrong by; do wrong to; doom; drain; embezzle; embezzlement; envenom; epithet; epithetize; execrate; execration; exploit; fault; force; foul; fouling; fulminate against; get into trouble; harass; hard words; harm; hex; hurt; ill use; ill-treat; ill-treatment; ill-usage; ill-use; impair; impose; impose upon; imprecation; infect; injure; injury; insult; invective; jaw; jawing; jeremiad; jinx; knock about; lambaste; lead astray; libel; load with reproaches; make use of; maladminister; maladministration; malediction; malfeasance; malign; maligning; malpractice; maltreat; maltreatment; malversation; manhandle; manipulate; mar; masturbation; maul; menace; mess up; milk; minimize; misapplication; misapply; misappropriate; misappropriation; misconduct; misemploy; misemployment; misfeasance; mishandle; mishandling; mislead; mismanage; mismanagement; mistreat; mistreatment; misusage; misuse; molest; molestation; mud; objurgate; objurgation; obloquy; onslaught; oppress; opprobrium; outrage; peculate; peculation; persecute; perversion; pervert; philippic; pilfer; pilfering; play havoc with; play hob with; play on; poison; pollute; pollution; poor stewardship; prejudice; presume upon; priapism; profanation; profane; profanity; prostitute; prostitution; rag; rail at; railing; rape; rate; rating; ravage; rave against; ravish; ravishment; rebuke; reproach; revile; revilement; reviling; rough; rough up; ruin; savage; scathe; scold; scolding; screed; scurrility; seduce; seducement; seduction; self-abuse; sexual assault; slander; soil; spoil; stroke; suck dry; sully; swear; swear at; swearing; taint; take advantage of; threaten; thunder against; tirade; tongue-lash; tongue-lashing; torment; torture; traduce; upbraid; upbraiding; use; use ill; vilification; vilify; violate; violation; violence; vituperate; vituperation; work on; work upon; wound; wreak havoc on; write off; wrong; yell at; yelp at

Etymology 1

From French or Old French abus, or Latin abūsus, perfect active participle of abūtor.

Etymology 2

From French or Old French abuser, from Latin abūsus, perfect active participle of abūtor, from ab (“from, away from”) + ūtor (“use”).

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /əˈbjuːz/, SAMPA: /@"bju:z</
• (US) enPR: əbyo͞oz', IPA: /əˈbjuz/, SAMPA: /@"bjuz/
• (RP) IPA: /əˈbjuːs/, SAMPA: /@"bju:s/
• (US) enPR: əbyo͞os', IPA: /əˈbjus/, SAMPA: /@"bjus/

Derived terms

• (noun) abusefully, abuse of distress, child abuse, drug abuse, self-abuse
• (verb) abusable, abusage, abuser

Related terms

• (verb) abusive, abusively, abusiveness

Translations

Anagrams

• beaus

French

Verb

Abuse

1. first-person singular present indicative of abuser
2. third-person singular present indicative of abuser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of abuser
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of abuser
5. second-person singular imperative of abuser

Anagrams

• aubes

Latin

Participle

abūse

1. vocative masculine singular of abūsus

Spanish

Verb

Abuse (infinitive abusar)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of abusar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of abusar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of abusar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of abusar.