abuses (Meaning)
abuses
the crime of making such an attack, sexual abuse, to put to a wrong or improper use, rape or indecent assault not amounting to rape, to put to improper or excessive use, deceive, improper, unfair, or excessive use, the act of violating sexually, to treat cruelly, to put to a use other than the one intended, to treat so as to injure or damage, masturbate, to use without medical justification, improper or excessive use or treatment, to engage in sexual activity with (a child under an age specified by statute), the infliction of physical or emotional injury, to use excessively, to use wrongly, to use or treat so as to injure or damage, a verbal attack (as on a police officer in the performance of his or her duty), the crime of inflicting such injury see also battered child syndrome, battered woman's syndrome compare cruelty, neglect, to attack in words, a deceitful act, to attack harshly with words, a corrupt practice or custom, physical mistreatment, physical maltreatment, to subject to abuse and especially to rape or indecent assault, to put to a bad or unfair use, harsh insulting language, to inflict physical or emotional mistreatment or injury on (as one's child) purposely or through negligence or neglect and often on a regular basis, language that condemns or vilifies usually unjustly, intemperately, and angrily
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FAQs About the word abuses
the crime of making such an attack, sexual abuse, to put to a wrong or improper use, rape or indecent assault not amounting to rape, to put to improper or exces
invectives,insults, curses, fulminations, criticisms, vituperations, scurrilities,vitriols, imprecations, reprimands
praises, compliments, acclaim, commendations, flatteries, felicitations, endearments,congratulations, applauses,soft soaps
The company's unethical practices led to widespread abuses of power within the organization.
The dictator's regime was notorious for its human rights abuses against dissenters.
The child protection agency intervened to stop the ongoing abuses in the household.
The investigative report exposed the systemic abuses within the prison system.
