Abuse: alternatives and connections

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

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Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.

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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.

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The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

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The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; o…

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To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…

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To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Wrong treatment.

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To whisper.

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Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.

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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.

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A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

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The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity.

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The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a relig…

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Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.

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The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship.

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The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity.

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One who, or that which, stings.

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A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster.

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The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame.

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To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

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The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

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An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.

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To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach.

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imp. of Sling. Slung.

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To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.

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To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.

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One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].

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One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].

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Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.

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Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.

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To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.

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To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.

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The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to someth…

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The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to someth…

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The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen…

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To fight and scratch.

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Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.

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The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

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To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.

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To treat amiss; to abuse.

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To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.

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To turnanother way; to divert.

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The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse.

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To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.

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To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in successio…

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The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.

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