Word.ws English Dictionary

ritual abuse

ritual abuse noun: any form of physical, sexual, or psychological mistreatment that involves the use of ritual.

Noun

ritual abuse (countable and uncountable, plural ritual abuses)

  1. Any form of physical, sexual, or psychological mistreatment that involves the use of ritual.

Forms of ritual abuse

pluralritual abuses

Words formed from ritual abuse

Questions about ritual abuse

What does ritual abuse mean?
Ritual abuse means any form of physical, sexual, or psychological mistreatment that involves the use of ritual.
What part of speech is ritual abuse?
Ritual abuse is a noun.
What is the plural of ritual abuse?
The plural of ritual abuse is ritual abuses.

Words near ritual abuse in the dictionary

  1. rittock
  2. rittocks
  3. ritts
  4. Ritu
  5. ritual
  6. ritual abuse
  7. ritual abuses
  8. Ritual Decalogue
  9. ritual magic
  10. ritual servitude
  11. ritual Ten Commandments

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ritual abuse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ritual abuse.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ritual_abuse. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.