abused

Verb

abuse (third-person singular simple present abuses, present participle abusing, simple past and past participle abused)

1. (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert
   • He abused his authority.
2. (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
   • Blows with the fist should be given on the back of the woman, which she is sitting on the lap of the man, and she should give blows in return, abusing the man as if she were angry, and making the cooing and the weeping sounds.1883, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, Karma Sutra

   Synonyms:

   maltreat, injure, annoy, bewound, damage, damnify, dere, do damage to, do for, do ill

3. (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
   • The […] tellers of news abused the general.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...

   Synonyms:

   misuse, vitriol, vituperate, affront, burn, carry, cut down, disrespect, dis, diss

4. (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.
5. (archaic, transitive) To violate; defile; to rape; (reflexive) to masturbate.
   • Like Angels life was then mens happy cace;
     But later ages pride, like corn-fed ſteed,
     Abuſd her plenty, and fat ſwolne encreace
     To all licentious luſt, and gan exceed1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16, page 276

   Synonyms:

   outrage, ravish, self-abuse, touch oneself, constuprate, defile, defoul, dishonour, force, misuse

6. (obsolete, transitive) Misrepresent; adulterate.
   • Believe me, sir, he hath been abused, grossly abused to you.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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