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re-abuse

re-abuse verb: to abuse again.

Verb

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

  1. To abuse again.

Noun

re-abuse (countable and uncountable, plural re-abuses)

  1. Abuse that is repeated or perpetrated again.
    • a re-abuse rate of six percent

Forms of re-abuse

Verb
third-person singular presentre-abuses
present participlere-abusing
past participlere-abused
pastre-abused
Noun
pluralre-abuses

Origin of re-abuse

From re- + abuse.

Questions about re-abuse

What does re-abuse mean?
Re-abuse means to abuse again.
What part of speech is re-abuse?
Re-abuse can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of re-abuse?
The past tense of re-abuse is re-abused.

Words near re-abuse in the dictionary

  1. re-absorb
  2. re-abstract
  3. re-abstracted
  4. re-abstracting
  5. re-abstracts
  6. re-abuse
  7. re-abused
  8. re-abuses
  9. re-abusing
  10. re-accelerate
  11. re-acceptance

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