ABUSE

Abuse

Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of an entity, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. Abuse can come in many forms, such as: physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, assault, violation, rape, unjust practices; crimes, or other types of aggression.

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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; as, to abuse one's 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.


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