abuser
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5.3
- noun
- /əˈbjuːzər/
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- He was an alcoholic and a cocaine abuser with a fast temper and a faster trigger.
- child abuser
- criminal abuser
- abuser profile
And instead we should be asking the abusers why they abuse.
- And instead we should be asking the abusers why they abuse.
- Having a tough childhood is not an excuse for being an abuser as an adult.
- It sounds like you know a lot of drug abusers and Alcoholics.
- And so it's like now you're you're labelling him as an abuser when you hit first.
- That there's a difference, but it's not the difference of the abuser and the abused.
- These are the men who end up being, you know, that domestic abuser of their wife and their kids.
- It's because you want to protect the abuser.
- In the Rochdale trial, the main abuser was called Shabir Ahmed or daddy was his nickname.
- Joe Scarborough knows perfectly well this guy might be a woman abuser and he doesn't care at all.
- It's, it's really sinister what these abusers do to these children and they make them so afraid.
- We'll, we'll give them foster homes with the known abusers.
- I feel like there will be stricter punishment and longer harsher punishment on child abusers.
Examples
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There is power in that message of the oppressor, the abuser, the enemy that has abused their power.
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She was a sick woman, a child abuser.
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These are the men who end up being, you know, that domestic abuser of their wife and their kids.
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Having a tough childhood is not an excuse for being an abuser as an adult.
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Are you an abuser of medication?
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In a particular context, the abuser has authority or power, and the victim is vulnerable to that person.
Academic text (1996) -
Some of the nursing staff, it occurred to them that he might be a drug abuser.
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But it is not my shame, it is my abuser's.
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The torture that drug abusers put their loved ones through was horrible.
Fiction book (1992) -
He was identified as an abuser after several incidents of domestic violence were reported.
Synonyms
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3.2
A person who scares or hurts people who are weaker
16
7.7
A person who causes very bad physical pain to punish or make someone talk
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7.9
A person who hurts someone on purpose, often again and again
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6.3
A person who repeatedly bothers, threatens, or scares others
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8.1
A person who repeatedly hits or hurts someone in their home
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8.3
A person who harms or tricks another person to control them
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7.4
A person who causes pain or distress to someone on purpose
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7.8
A person who attacks someone physically
A person who hurts people or animals on purpose
A person who hurts another person
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How Harmful
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Morphology
Etymology
Abuser comes from the verb abuse, which is built from the prefix ab- meaning 'away' and the common word use meaning 'to use'. So an abuser is someone who 'uses' another person badly or wrongly, which explains why it means a person who treats others in a cruel or harmful way.