abuse
verb (used with object)
to use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
abuser
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a word derived from
abuse.
Example Sentences
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Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing involving the late disgraced financier and convicted sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein, a onetime acquaintance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
Todo, who said he had been attacked online "as a robot abuser", visited Unitree in China last year to excuse himself for the unconventional treatment of their device.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
Still, it’s bothersome that a world-famous abuser was among the cohort who’ve been misreading and misrepresenting Nabokov’s “love affair with the English language” since its release.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
“Oates is a lazy liar and … an abuser of semicolons!”
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
It set him instantly on my side, in antagonism to the abuser of my father's memory, a memory which he, poor man, still secretly revered.
From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Rafael Sabatini
