Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
- Misuse; improper use; perversion.
- (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
- Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
- (now rare) Catachresis.
- Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
- Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
Verbi
- (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert
- (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
- (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
- (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.
- (transitive, archaic) To violate; defile; to rape; (reflexive) to masturbate.
- (transitive, obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate.
- (transitive, obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
- (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse.
Esimerkit
- Dickens was careful to castigate abuses which were being reformed.
- All abuse, whether physical, verbal, psychological or sexual, is bad.
- Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power.
- Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
- Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?
- The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of abuse, came to blows.
- This principle (if we may so abuse the word) shot rapidly into popularity
- And I would have things to say to this God at the judgement, storming at him, as Job stormed with the eloquence of the abused heart.
- The [...] tellers of news abused the general.
- But ever and always curse him and abuse him.
- Believe me, sir, he hath been abused, grossly abused to you.
- 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
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | abused | Partisiipin perfekti | abus'd (vanhahtava) |
| Imperfekti | abused | Imperfekti | abus'd (vanhahtava) |
| Partisiipin preesens | abusing | Monikko | abuses |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | abuses | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | abuseth (vanhahtava) |