Definition of abuse

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Abuse (v. t.) To deceive; to impose on.

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Misuse :: Misuse (v. t.) To abuse; to treat ill.
Maltreat :: Maltreat (v. t.) To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.
Insulting :: Insulting (a.) Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc..
Inabusively :: Inabusively (adv.) Without abuse.
Arbitrary :: Arbitrary (a.) Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power..
Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language..
Blackguard :: Blackguard (v. t.) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
Assail :: Assail (v. t.) To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like..
Reformation :: Reformation (n.) The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses..
Disabused :: Disabused (imp. & p. p.) of Disabus.
Insult :: Insult (v. t.) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity..
Self-abuse :: Self-abuse (n.) The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties..
Scurrilous :: Scurrilous (a.) Containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile; obscenely jocular; as, scurrilous language..
Abusable :: Abusable (a.) That may be abused.
Self-abuse :: Self-abuse (n.) Self-deception; delusion.
Abusive :: Abusive (a.) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses..
Disabuse :: Disabuse (v. t.) To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.
Vilification :: Vilification (n.) The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.
Abuser :: Abuser (n.) One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].
Scurrility :: Scurrility (n.) That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language; low buffoonery; vulgar abuse.
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