abuse /ə-būzˈ/

1. To misuse (eg drugs)
2. To take undue advantage of
3. To betray (eg a confidence)
4. To misrepresent
5. To deceive
6. To revile or swear at
7. To maltreat
8. To violate, esp sexually

1. Wrong use
2. An evil or corrupt practice
3. Deceit
4. Hurt or maltreatment
5. Undue advantage
6. Betrayal (of confidence)
7. Ill usage, maltreatment
8. (esp sexual) violation
9. Reviling, insulting language

abusage /ə-būˈsij/ noun

Wrong use, esp of words or grammar

abuser /ə-būˈzər/ noun

abūˈsion /-zhən, Spenser also -zi-ən/ noun (now rare)

1. Misuse
2. Deception
3. Wrong
4. Outrage
5. Reviling

abūˈsive /-siv/ adjective

1. Containing, giving, or of the nature of, abuse
2. (of speech) coarse, rude or insulting
3. Wrong
4. (of a word) wrongly applied, catachrestical (archaic)

abūˈsively adverb

abūˈsiveness noun

• adopted
• adoptee
• adoptees
• adopter
• adopters
• Adoptianism
• adoptianist
• adoptianists
• adopting
• adoption
• Adoptionism
• adoptionist
• adoptionists
• adoptions
• adoptious
• adoptive
• adopts
• adorable
• adorableness
• adorablenesses
• adorably
• adoration
• adorations
• adore
• adored