Similar words: abuse, disabuse, abusive, syllabus, abut, babu, abutting, tabulate. Meaning: [ə'bjuːz] adj. 1. used improperly or excessively especially drugs 2. subjected to cruel treatment.
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(61) During his trial much was made of the way he had abused his position as a doctor.
(62) A Roman Catholic priest who sexually abused a vulnerable parishioner was ordered to pay £64,000 damages to his victim.
(63) Being abused as a child, she brings a lot of baggage into the marriage.
(64) They believed their children were being abused by the system set up to protect them.
(65) The Ministry of Health refused an interview, so Hammond stood on their forecourt and abused them loudly.
(66) How do social workers go about investigating these complaints, and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused?
(67) Call it a little cry of freedom from a much abused soul.
(68) Many abolitionists' heads had been bloodied and civil liberties abused without benefit of federal protection.
(69) But behind the scenes, gentle greyhounds are often just exploited, abused and then tossed aside when their fleetness fades.
(70) The accused had been sexually abused himself as a child and now bitterly regretted the harm he had caused his daughters.
(71) Clutching his new bear, he left the hospital for the Garth House, a Beaumont facility for battered and abused children.
(72) But we think only a small percentage of abused kids tell, as abusers are so good at silencing them.
(73) Mr Boyle told the jury that he had never racially abused or harassed Errol.
(74) The District Court therefore abused its discretion in imposing the tax itself.
(75) Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
(76) For the reasons given below, we hold that the District Court abused its discretion in imposing the tax increase.
(77) Brand was a cruel and intimidating man who abused his children and his wife.
(78) He said there were 2,000 orange badge holders in Darlington alone and the system is abused.
(79) They said parents sexually abused their children as part of a satanic ritual, and that these practices were widespread.
(80) Social workers have a key role to play when some one suspects that a child is being abused.
(81) And morphine from opium is illegally converted to the highly addictive drug. heroin, widely abused in Western societies.
(82) Commas Commas are perhaps the most widely used and abused form of punctuation.
(83) Eleanor just abused him thoroughly,(http://sentencedict.com/abused.html) which wasn't very womanly in his opinion.
(84) The Law Society also considers that the recommendation enabling judges to exclude relevant evidence in certain circumstances is capable of being abused.
(85) As he was thought to have abused an hallucinogenic drug, he was given activated charcoal and sorbitol by nasogastric tube.
(86) Any member of the scheme who felt that the terms of the trust were being abused could seek redress under trust law.
(87) Erik claims his father violently abused him from age 6 until a few days before the killings.
(88) After Courtney's trial a senior detective revealed that Courtney had probably abused 100 other women.
(89) Use this form after any incident in which you were hurt, abused or threatened, or where your property was damaged.
(90) I ended up in Kibble List D. I just abused the teachers.
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