Abusenoun
Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
‘All abuse, whether physical, verbal, psychological or sexual, is bad.’;
Invectivenoun
An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
Abusenoun
Misuse; improper use; perversion.
Invectivenoun
A severe or violent censure or reproach.
Abusenoun
(obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
Invectivenoun
Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
Abusenoun
Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
Invectivenoun
A harsh or reproachful accusation.
‘Politics can raise invective to a low art.’;
Abusenoun
Catachresis.
Invectiveadjective
Characterized by invection or railing.
‘Tom's speeches became diatribes — each more invective than the last.’;
Abusenoun
Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
Invectiveadjective
Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.
Abusenoun
Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
Invectivenoun
An expression which inveighs or rails against a person; a severe or violent censure or reproach; something uttered or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation; - followed by against, having reference to the person or thing affected; as, an invective against tyranny.
‘The world will be able to judge of his [Junius'] motives for writing such famous invectives.’;
Abuseverb
(transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert
‘He abused his authority.’;
Invectivenoun
abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
Abuseverb
(transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
Invective
Invective (from Middle English invectif, or Old French and Late Latin invectus) is abusive, reproachful, or venomous language used to express blame or censure; or, a form of rude expression or discourse intended to offend or hurt; vituperation, or deeply seated ill will, vitriol.
Abuseverb
To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
Abuseverb
(transitive) To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually.
Abuseverb
To violate; defile; to rape.
Abuseverb
Misrepresent; adulterate.
Abuseverb
To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
Abuseverb
Disuse.
Abuseverb
To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority.
‘This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity.’;
Abuseverb
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.
Abuseverb
To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.
‘The . . . tellers of news abused the general.’;
Abuseverb
To dishonor.
Abuseverb
To violate; to ravish.
Abuseverb
To deceive; to impose on.
‘Their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud, and abused by a double object.’;
Abusenoun
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.
‘Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power.’;
Abusenoun
Physical ill treatment; injury.
Abusenoun
A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service.
‘Abuse after disappeared without a struggle..’;
Abusenoun
Vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling.
‘The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of abuse, came to blows.’;
Abusenoun
Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child.
‘Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?’;
Abusenoun
cruel or inhumane treatment
Abusenoun
a rude expression intended to offend or hurt;
‘when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse’; ‘they yelled insults at the visiting team’;
Abusenoun
improper or excessive use
Abuseverb
treat badly;
‘This boss abuses his workers’; ‘She is always stepping on others to get ahead’;
Abuseverb
change the inherent purpose or function of something;
‘Don't abuse the system’; ‘The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers’;
Abuseverb
use foul or abusive language towards;
‘The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket’; ‘The angry mother shouted at the teacher’;
Abuse
Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of a thing, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. Abuse can come in many forms, such as: physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, assault, violation, rape, unjust practices, crimes, or other types of aggression.