abuse
verb (used with object)
to use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
abusable
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a word derived from
abuse.
Example Sentences
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The indictment alleges Indivior convinced them the treatment was “safer, less divertible, and less abusable than other opioid-addiction treatment drug,” prosecutors said, Bloomberg’s Drew Armstrong and Riley Griffin report.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2019
"These powers would be abusable enough in the hands of proper and responsible police authorities," says Washington Lawyer Ronald Goldfarb, author of Ransom, a new study of bail problems.
From Time Magazine Archive
