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Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUS
  • ÄäntäminenUS
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ə.ˈbjuːs/
    • IPA: /ə.ˈbjuːz/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ə.ˈbjus/
    • IPA: /ə.ˈbjuz/
Käännös
Verbit
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2.
Substantiivit
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Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  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. (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
  4. Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
  5. (now, rare)   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.

Verbit

  1. (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse one's authority.
  2. (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
  3. (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
  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. (transitive, archaic) To violate; defile; to rape.
  6. (transitive, obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate.
  7. (transitive, obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
  8. (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 perfektiabusedPartisiipin perfektiabus'd (vanhahtava)
ImperfektiabusedImperfektiabus'd (vanhahtava)
Partisiipin preesensabusingMonikkoabuses
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensabusesYksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesensabuseth (vanhahtava)