abuse meaning
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[əˈbjuːs] [əˈbjus] [əˈbjuːz] [əˈbjuz] 
US US WAbuse
- Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of an entity, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit.
- ^ Abuse – Defined at Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. 2013 [Word first used in 15th century]. Retrieved 28 December 2013. abuse [may be defined as the following]...to treat (a person or animal) in a harsh or harmful way...
FR abuse 
- NounPLabuses
- Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
- Dickens was careful to castigate abuses which were being reformed.
- Misuse; improper use; perversion.
- (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
- Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?
- Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
- The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of abuse, came to blows.
- (now rare) Catachresis.
- Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
- Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
- Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
- VerbSGabusesPRabusingPT, PPabused
- (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.
- This principle (if we may so abuse the word) shot rapidly into popularity
- (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
- And I would have things to say to this God at the judgement, storming at him, as Job stormed with the eloquence of the abused heart.
- (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive, archaic) To violate; defile; to rape.
- (transitive, obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate.
- Believe me, sir, he hath been abused, grossly abused to you.
- (transitive, obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
- (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse.
- (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.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Let's suppose we live in Ameritopia, where only the cops investigate child abuse on a criminal charge standard...sort of the dreamworld I've seen suggested here.
- In drug abuse model, repeated administration of LY379268 reduced toluene-induced hyperlocomotion, whereas repeated dosing with LY379268 had no effect on PCP-induced hyperlocomotor activity.
- ...and as he himself confesseth, when he was beginning to misknow God, and to abuse the great benefit of his delivery,...
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- He unconsciously suppressed his memories of abuse.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of abuse in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "abuse" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.