to abuse
344
3.7
- verb
- /əˈbjus/
- NSFW
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- I was abused as a child.
- sexually abuse someone
- abuse a child
- abuse women
And she was, I would say, abusing him, hitting him.
- And she was, I would say, abusing him, hitting him.
- These people are being abused, killed, they'll die in a truck.
- You're dealing with a narcissist and they are abusing or harassing you.
- Just the meanest people possible abusing tiny little horses.
- And so I, I know that the man who abused me came to us a broken man.
- So the first time that Eunice Spry abused you, what happened?
- She she cries if she sees other people being teased or abused, and I'm like that too.
- You're running around sexually abusing women like you're a bad guy.
- She's rung the police and said I think my husband, they're sexually abusing my daughter, right?
- Like in this world, the ruling party like enslaves and abuses the humans.
- And that was the last time he abused me.
- Is you being invalidated, abused and otherwise mistreated now?
- So you were abused by sexual predators.
- The cops in Naples pull up on him, think he's abusing her and lock him up.
- See, when the man wasn't abusing her, she thought that he didn't love her anymore.
- And then then I was sexually abused by the headmaster for a couple of years.
- But the people in Suffolk County who were there who can't pay bail are being abused, right?
Examples
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Many are sexually and physically abused along the way because of their extreme vulnerability.
Academic text (2013) -
Cooperative agriculture and agribusiness, on the other hand, have a history of abusing the environment.
Academic text (1995) -
I would never abuse myself or anybody else.
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He, he abused his power to arrest somebody.
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How do you stand by and watch someone abuse a helpless child?
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And as they grow up, this father abuses the family.
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You would never neglect and abuse your children.
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He beat her and abused her.
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One-quarter of these said they were repeatedly abused, some by multiple perpetrators.
Academic text (2011) -
How can anyone stand by and watch someone abuse a helpless animal?
Synonyms
271
4.1
To attack someone by hitting them again and again to hurt them
152
6.5
To treat people cruelly or unfairly using power to limit their rights
126
4.7
To attack someone physically or try to hurt them
70
6.0
Treat someone cruelly or unfairly so they suffer
63
2.9
To be cruel to people or animals
35
7.3
To attack and hurt someone slightly to scare them
34
7.7
Treat someone cruelly with violence or make them numb to suffering
23
6.7
To treat someone badly to gain power or get ahead
3
7.4
To be cruel to a person or animal
1
8.8
Treat people badly and ignore their feelings or rights
To treat people or animals badly and unfairly
Behave towards a person or animal in a cruel, unfair way
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
86
3.7
Harming children physically, emotionally or sexually, often by an adult who looks after them
- NSFW
34
2.8
Using illegal or harmful drugs too often so they harm a person's health and life
- NSFW
1
5.8
A drug taken for pleasure that changes how you think and can cause addiction or harm
- Specialized
Harmful heavy drinking that often causes addiction and health problems
How Harmful
- Offensive
582
5.7
- Offensive
34
7.7
- NSFW
344
3.7
738
1.0
63
2.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Abuse comes from Latin parts ab- ('away') and uti ('to use'), meaning 'to use wrongly'. To abuse a person or animal is to 'use' them without care, often by hurting or treating them unfairly.