misuse
noun
wrong or improper use; misapplication.
will misuse
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future tenseof misuse.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Without clinical supervision, many patients will misuse and then discontinue the bogus products and achieve no lasting benefit.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Experts are also worried that people will misuse these systems to spread disinformation.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
They argued that people will misuse the benefit, creating bigger problems for businesses struggling with staffing.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022
“What I worry about is that employers will misuse this,” Rutherford says.
From The Verge ● May 7, 2020
He who lacks them will misuse his gifts and mar his life, and the more splendid his endowments and the higher his position, the more conspicuous will be his ruin and the heavier his guilt.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren
