improper use of words; unidiomatic or ungrammatical language
Word origin
[1540–50; abuse + -age]This word is first recorded in the period 1540–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cabinet, horizon, machine, monitor, telltale-age is a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech,occurring originally in loanwords from French (voyage; courage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage; breakage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of”(seepage; wreckage; spoilage), “place of living or business” (parsonage; brokerage), “social standing or relationship” (bondage; marriage; patronage), and “quantity, measure, or charge” (footage; shortage; tonnage; towage)
Examples of 'abusage' in a sentence
abusage
Abusage of steroids can cause serious health problems some of which are incurable, such as liver cancer.
Goran Vasić, Dragoslav Jakonić 2007, 'STEROIDS MOST OFTEN USED BY SPORTSMEN', Sport Monthttp://www.sportmont.ucg.ac.me/clanci/SportMont_Maj_2007_Vasic_102-109.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)