Definition of abuse

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Abuse (v. t.) Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child..

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Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) To violate; to ravish.
Caperclaw :: Caperclaw (v. t.) To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse..
Miscall :: Miscall (v. t.) To call by a bad name; to abuse.
Blaspheme :: Blaspheme (v.) Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse..
Clapperclaw :: Clapperclaw (v. t.) To abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold.
Maltreat :: Maltreat (v. t.) To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.
Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) Vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling..
Abusive :: Abusive (a.) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses..
Syllabi :: Syllabuses (pl. ) of Syllabu.
Abusive :: Abusive (a.) Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow..
Insult :: Insult (v. t.) To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him..
Self-abuse :: Self-abuse (n.) The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties..
Profane :: Profane (a.) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
Disabuse :: Disabuse (v. t.) To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.
Dilapidate :: Dilapidate (v. t.) To impair by waste and abuse; to squander.
Revilement :: Revilement (n.) The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse..
Profane :: Profane (a.) To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God..
Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) 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..
Tirade :: Tirade (n.) A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
Questman :: Questman (n.) One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures..
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