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Definition of Abuse

Abuse To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. To use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to abuse one's powers, one's patience. To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. To dishonor. To violate; to ravish. To deceive; to impose on. Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language. Physical ill treatment; injury. A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service. Vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling. Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child. Related Definitions: Abuse, Abusive, Act, An, Application, As, Authority, Bad, Child, Civil, Coarse, Coarsely, Condemnation, Corrupt, Crime, Custom, Deceive, Dishonor, Disparage, End, Excessive, Fault, Female, For, Gold, Hurt, Ill, Impose, Improper, In, Inherited, Injuriously, Injury, Insulting, Language, Make, Maltreat, Misapply, Misuse, Natural, Of, Offense, On, One, Or, Our, Patience, Pervert, Physical, Practice, Punish, Purpose, Put, Ravish, Reproach, Revile, Reviling, Service, Speech, Tax, The, To, Treatment, Use, Violate, Violation, Virulent, Vituperative, Wrong

Abuse Quotations Use, don't abuse. Grace Jones What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken? Sitting Bull We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. Mohandas Gandhi The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Edmund Burke No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone. Salma Hayek

Abuse Translations abuse in Dutch is gescheld abuse in Finnish is kiduttaa abuse in Italian is abuso abuse in Norwegian is misbruke, misbruk, skjelle ut abuse in Portuguese is abuso abuse in Spanish is abuso, usufructo, insulto

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