| 单词 | abuse |
| 释义 | abuse I. 1. a. < abuse a person in the most violent terms > b. obsolete < abused her to her friends > 2. obsolete < the Moor's abused by some most villainous knave — Shakespeare > 3. a. < abusing the privilege by invoking it for ends not sanctioned by law — Bernard Meltzer > : use or apply improperly or to excess < farmers have learned not to abuse the soil > b. < abused his power by profiting at the expense of others > : take unfair or undue advantage of < he has abused my confidence in letting this secret become known > 4. < abuse a horse by overworking it > < abuse one's eyes by reading in dim light > : treat without consideration or fairness < those left behind felt themselves abused > 5. a. b. archaic c. II. 1. < the buying of votes and other election abuses > 2. < to call that state a democracy is an abuse of terms > : application to a wrong or bad purpose < the arbitrary punishments were an abuse of his power > 3. obsolete < or is it some abuse, and no such thing — Shakespeare > 4. < bolshevist had become … a vague term of abuse — Rose Macaulay > < the political harridans would … attack every possible leader with scandal and abuse — H.G.Wells > 5. a. b. under some statutes 6. < to be arrested for abuse of an animal > < abuse of one's health > Synonyms: < now there is one word in the extended vocabulary of barrack-room abuse that cannot pass without comment … you must not call a man a bastard unless you are prepared to prove it on his front teeth — Rudyard Kipling > invective may apply to any denunciatory diatribe, but it often connotes a certain command of cogent language < John Bull stopped at nothing in the way of insult; but its blazing audacity of invective never degenerated into dull abuse — Agnes Repplier > < Cicero replied in that masterpiece of invective known as the Fifth Philippic — John Buchan > This suggestion is not necessarily present < not the rapier of sarcasm but the bludgeon of invective — W.S.Maugham > obloquy may suggest language designed to shame another, language casting shame upon another < those who … stood by me in the teeth of obloquy, taunt and open sneer, or insult even — Oscar Wilde > < to a symbol of obloquy, to an unanswerable epithet of derogation — Bliss Perry > vituperation suggests fluent, ready, and sustained abuse and castigation nastily delivered < hag, nuisance, shrew, termagant let loose, she assailed everybody who violated in the least her prejudices. Presidents were nagged beyond endurance, and senators, and congressmen: no one could escape the vials of her vituperation — F.L.Pattee > < avoid reflections on the chastity of your opponent's female relations … Once you have gone so far it is impossible to retrace your steps and resort to minor forms of vituperation — Robert Graves > scurrility, the most uncomplimentary of these words, implies meanness or viciousness in attack and coarseness or foulness in language < interrupted in his defense by ribaldry and scurrility from the judgment seat — T.B.Macaulay > billingsgate may indicate very ready, easy profanity and obscenity delivered with practiced ease < the billingsgate slang they certainly have acquired in perfection, and no white would think of competing with them in abuse or hard swearing — Sidney Baker > < an assortment of billingsgate that would have paralyzed a fishwife and brought blushes to a character in a Jim Tully novel or a Eugene O'Neill play — Herbert Asbury > |
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