Synonym: damage, ill-use, injure, mistreat. Similar words: a bundle of, bush, business, on business, businessman. Meaning: [ə'bjuːz] n. 1. cruel or inhumane treatment 2. a rude expression intended to offend or hurt 3. improper or excessive use. v. 1. treat badly 2. change the inherent purpose or function of something 3. use foul or abusive language towards 4. use wrongly or improperly or excessively.
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211) The verbal and sometimes physical abuse that the guards have to take can be unbearable.
212) When I first met her she had been hurling abuse at her daughters-in-law who took no notice whatsoever.
213) Opportunity is a source of damage, failing, regret or remorse for those who abuse or misuse it. Dr T.P.Chia
214) He apologised for having failed to assess the extent of corruption and abuse of power.
215) Thus the time spent on the physical abuse referrals varied from 30 minutes to 20 hours.
216) A four-letter word was among his offerings and the official had no alternative but to give him a warning for verbal abuse.
217) She heard the boys hurling abuse at her, shouting to her to stop, but she shut her ears to them.
218) A problem in researching child abuse is that social workers, in particular, are consistently subjected to complaints about their work.
219) Many physicians have been trained to screen women for domestic abuse.
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220) Thus, marital dependency reinforces the likelihood that women will tolerate physical abuse from their husbands.
221) Sovereignty, in other words, must no longer be a licence for abuse of power.
222) So this week Community Care launches Elder abuse: break the silence - its major campaign for 1993.
223) When abuse or potential abuse is confirmed the conference may decide to place a child's name on the child protection register.
224) Some ethnic minority elders may find the continuing experience of hostility and racial abuse which they experience very hard to bear.
225) Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh. Henry Ward Beecher
226) The environment cannot cope with our abuse of air, water, and land.
227) Obviously this flexibility was frequently to the client's advantage, but it was also open to abuse.
228) Some 30 % of exclusions were for bullying, and a further 14.9 % for verbal abuse.
229) She was then subjected to a torrent of abuse, while being driven around busy streets.
230) They had descended to their usual shouting of verbal abuse.
231) Alcohol and tobacco accelerate epidemics, such as tuberculosis and drug abuse.
232) Even congressional leaders who pushed hardest for it were sufficiently nervous to build in some hedges against runaway presidential abuse.
233) So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse.
234) In these circumstances the public interest in encouraging people to report cases of child abuse has been held to outweigh other interests.
235) Given the potential for abuse, should drinks packaging carry a health warning on the label?
236) Patients with liver disease may be susceptible to infection, particularly when this is secondary to alcohol abuse.
237) A checklist of the types of physical abuse was developed to identify and categorise them.
238) States are increasingly enacting laws imposing liability for failure to report on those mandated to file child abuse reports.
239) Many prisoners who actually had been newsmen had suffered serious abuse.
240) Ray Flynn and Joe Fisher represent something else, certainly not larceny or abuse of power.