abuse
Definitions
- Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
- Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
- Misuse; improper use; perversion
- Misuse; improper use; perversion.
- A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception
- A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
- Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies
- Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
- Catachresis.
- Catachresis
- Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
- Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
Equivalents
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العربيةآذىأساء استعمالأهانإِيذَاء جَسَدِيّابتذالاِسَاءَة اِسْتِخْدَاماغتصباِنْتِهَاك جَسَدِيّانتهكتعسفجورخدعسبسوء الاستغلالشتمشتيمةضللطعنطغيانظلمعابثغشمسبةيسيء استعماليشتم
Azərbaycan dilisui-istifadə
Eestisolvang
Euskaraabusatu
فارسیدشنام
Suomiherjataherjaushyväksikäyttäminenhyväksikäyttökäyttää hyväksiongelmakäyttöpahoinpidelläpahoinpitelyraiskatasolvatasolvausväärinkäytösväärinkäyttääväärinkäyttäminenväärinkäyttö
Lëtzebuergeschabuséieren
Lietuviųįžeidinėti
Македонскинавреда
മലയാളംദുരുപയോഗം
Maltiabbuż
Nederlandsbeschimpenbeschimpingenmisbruikmisbruikenmishandelenmishandelingonterenuitscheldenverkeerd gebruikenverkrachten
Polskigwałcićmaltretowaćmolestowanienadużyćnadużycienadużywaćobrazaobrażaćobrazićoszukaćoszukiwaćzgwałcićzmaltretowaćznęcać sięznęcanie sięzniewagaznieważaćznieważyć
Русскийбраньжесто́кое обраще́ниезлоупотребитьзлоупотреблениезлоупотреблятьиздевательствоиздеватьсяизнасиловатьистяза́ниематери́тьнападкинасилиенасиловатьобидаобидетьобижатьобматери́тьобругатьоскорбитьоскорблениеоскорблятьру́ганьругать
Svenskaförgripelsemissbrukmissbrukamissbrukningmissfirmelsemisshandelmisshandlaövergreppskymfordutnyttjavåldta
Українськаабузусґвалтува́тизґвалтуватизловживаннязловживатизловжитизнуща́ннязнущатисялайканаругаображатиобразапригноблювати
اردوگالی
Examples
“human rights abuses”
“All abuse, whether physical, verbal, psychological or sexual, is bad.”
“Dickens was careful to castigate abuses which were being reformed.”
“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power.”
“Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race⟳. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define⟳ groups of people by race⟳ really a matter⟳ of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?”
“Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?”
“children hurling abuse at each other”
“The two parties, after exchanging a good deal⟳ of abuse, came to blows.”
“But he and all the southerners who indulge in this abuse in the newspapers should realize⟳ that this will not enable us to find⟳ a solution to our problem but will merely aggravate it.”
“The pair – aged 14 and 15 years old – have⟳ been accused of assaulting and shouting abuse at four people in central Southampton, police have⟳ said.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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