abuse

Etymology 1
From, then from either , or from , perfect active participle of , from +. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
 * 2) Misuse; improper use; perversion.
 * 3)  A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
 * 4) Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
 * 5)  Catachresis.
 * 6) Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
 * 7) Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
 * 1)  A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
 * 2) Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
 * 3)  Catachresis.
 * 4) Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
 * 5) Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
 * 1)  Catachresis.
 * 2) Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
 * 3) Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
 * 1)  Catachresis.
 * 2) Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
 * 3) Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
 * 1) Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
 * 2) Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.

Usage notes

 * Typically followed by the word.

Translations

 * Arabic: تَعَسُّف, طُغْيَان, ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: تَعَسُّف
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: злаўжы́так, злоўжыва́нне
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian: piknaudžiavimas
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian: misbruk
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Tagalog:
 * Ukrainian: зловжива́ння


 * Arabic: اِسَاءَة اِسْتِخْدَام
 * Egyptian Arabic: سوء استخدام
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: sui-istifadə
 * Belarusian: злаўжы́так, злоўжыва́нне
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: misbrug,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ניצול לרעה
 * Hindi: दुरूपयोग
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, 람용(濫用)
 * Latin: abūsiō
 * Malay: penyalahgunaan
 * Maltese: abbuż
 * Maori: raukotinga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: misbruk
 * Nynorsk: misbruk
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: злоупотреба
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Ukrainian: зловжива́ння
 * Volapük:


 * Arabic: مَسَبَّة, شَتِيمَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: شتيمة, شتمة
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: абра́за
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: solvang
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: השתלחות
 * Hindi: ,
 * Irish: tarcaisne
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latgalian: sveņtēt, lomuot
 * Latin: probrum
 * Latvian: lamāt
 * Macedonian: навреда
 * Maori: whakamanioro, kaioraora
 * Norwegian: utskjelling
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: abuz verbal, jignire verbală, ofensă verbală
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: càineadh, trod, cronachadh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak:
 * Tagalog:
 * Ukrainian:, ла́йка
 * Urdu: گالی


 * Arabic: إِيذَاء جَسَدِيّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: إيذاء جسدي
 * Belarusian: здзек, здзе́кванне, е́нчанне
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: contumēlia
 * Malay: penderaan
 * Maori: tūkino ha, kaikino, whakakinonga, taitōkai, rurerurenga
 * Navajo: atéʼélʼí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: mishandling
 * Nynorsk: mishandling
 * Polish: znęcanie się
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, abuz fizic
 * Russian:, , жесто́кое обраще́ние,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: злостављање
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, pagmamalupit
 * Ukrainian: нару́га, знуща́ння, жорсто́ке пово́дження


 * Arabic: اِنْتِهَاك جَسَدِيّ
 * Armenian: սեռական ոտնձգություն
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: seksuelt misbrug
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, seksuaalinen väkivalta
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: תקיפה מינית
 * Italian: abuso sessuale,
 * Maori: taitōkai
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: violență sexuală, abuz sexual
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: abuso sexual
 * Tagalog:, panggagahasa


 * Interlingua:
 * Romanian:

Etymology 2
From, from , from , perfect active participle of , from +.

Verb

 * 1)  To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert
 * 2)  To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
 * 3)  To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
 * 4) * 1991, Yakubu Yahaya, quoted in: 2001, Toyin Falola, Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies, p. 199:
 * So we were angered by this and we could not tolerate this one because prophet Mohammed has been abused so many times in this country. Awolowo abused him sometimes ago saying that he was more successful and popular that [sic] Mohammed and Jesus.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  To violate; defile; to rape;  to masturbate.
 * 3)  Misrepresent; adulterate.
 * 4)  To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
 * 5) * 1651-2,, "Sermon VI, The House of Feasting; or, The Epicures Measures", in The works of Jeremy Taylor, Volume 1, page 283 (1831), edited by Thomas Smart Hughes
 * When Cyrus had espied Astyages and his fellows coming drunk from a banquet loaden with variety of follies and filthiness, their legs failing them, their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud and abused by a double object
 * 1)  Disuse.
 * So we were angered by this and we could not tolerate this one because prophet Mohammed has been abused so many times in this country. Awolowo abused him sometimes ago saying that he was more successful and popular that [sic] Mohammed and Jesus.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  To violate; defile; to rape;  to masturbate.
 * 3)  Misrepresent; adulterate.
 * 4)  To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
 * 5) * 1651-2,, "Sermon VI, The House of Feasting; or, The Epicures Measures", in The works of Jeremy Taylor, Volume 1, page 283 (1831), edited by Thomas Smart Hughes
 * When Cyrus had espied Astyages and his fellows coming drunk from a banquet loaden with variety of follies and filthiness, their legs failing them, their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud and abused by a double object
 * 1)  Disuse.
 * 1)  To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
 * 2) * 1651-2,, "Sermon VI, The House of Feasting; or, The Epicures Measures", in The works of Jeremy Taylor, Volume 1, page 283 (1831), edited by Thomas Smart Hughes
 * When Cyrus had espied Astyages and his fellows coming drunk from a banquet loaden with variety of follies and filthiness, their legs failing them, their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud and abused by a double object
 * 1)  Disuse.
 * 1)  Disuse.

Translations

 * Arabic: أَسَاءَ اِسْتِعْمَالَ
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: abusatu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: misbruge
 * Dutch:, verkeerd gebruiken
 * Esperanto: misuzi, mistrakti
 * Finnish: väärinkäyttää, käyttää hyväksi
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: ניצל לרעה
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: abuza, abuzá
 * Khmer: លើសល្មើស
 * Latin:, obloquor
 * Lithuanian: piknaudžiauti
 * Luxembourgish: abuséieren
 * Maori: raukoti
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: abuser
 * Norwegian: misbruke
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: злоупотребити
 * Roman: zloupotrebiti
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: зловжива́ти, зловжи́ти
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:, slanön


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: abusatu
 * Belarusian: здзе́кавацца
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: mishandle
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽, 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic: misþyrma
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: ពានពារ,, ,
 * Latin: obloquor
 * Maori: whakakinokino, taitōkai, tūkino, maukino, raukoti
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: abuser
 * Norwegian: mishandle
 * Polish:, zmaltretować,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: злостављати
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic: أَهَانَ,, شَتَمَ
 * Belarusian: абража́ць, абра́зіць
 * Bulgarian:, оскърбя́, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λοιδορέω
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: बुरा भला कहना, गाली देना
 * Irish: maslaigh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kabuverdianu: abuza, abuzá
 * Korean:
 * Latin: obloquor
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maori: whakamanioro, whakamania
 * Norwegian: skjelle ut
 * Old English: misbēodan
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Russian:, , , , , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: vrijeđati,
 * Ukrainian: обража́ти, пригно́блювати
 * Volapük:, ,


 * Finnish: väärinkäyttää, käyttää hyväksi


 * Arabic: اِغْتَصَبَ, اِنْتَهَكَ
 * Belarusian: гвалтава́ць, згвалтава́ць
 * Bulgarian:, изнаси́ля
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: voldtage
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:, käyttää hyväksi
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 性的虐待
 * Korean: 강간하다, 성폭행하다
 * Latin: obloquor
 * Maori: pāwhera
 * Norman: abuser
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: voldta
 * Nynorsk: valdta
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: гвалтува́ти, згвалтува́ти,, зґвалтува́ти


 * Arabic: خَدَعَ,, ضَلَّلَ
 * Finnish: väärinkäyttää, käyttää hyväksi
 * Italian:
 * Latin: obloquor
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Esperanto: