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 abuse [ə'bju:z]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 滥用, 虐待, 恶习, 辱骂

vt. 滥用, 辱骂, 虐待

[化] 不遵守运行规程

[医] 滥用


  1. It's easy to abuse one's power.
    人容易滥用权力。
  2. They talked about how the uses and abuses of figures to prove things in politics.
    他们谈到人们如何在政治问题上使用及滥用数字来混淆视听。
  3. He greeted me with a stream of abuse.
    他见到我就连声辱骂。


abuse
[ noun ]
  1. cruel or inhumane treatment

    2. <noun.act>
    the child showed signs of physical abuse
  2. a rude expression intended to offend or hurt

    3. <noun.communication>
    when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse
    they yelled insults at the visiting team
  3. improper or excessive use

    4. <noun.act>
    alcohol abuse
    the abuse of public funds
[ verb ]
  1. treat badly

    2. <verb.social> ill-treat ill-use maltreat mistreat step
    This boss abuses his workers
    She is always stepping on others to get ahead
  2. change the inherent purpose or function of something

    3. <verb.change>     misuse pervert
    Don't abuse the system
    The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers
  3. use foul or abusive language towards

    4. <verb.communication>     blackguard clapperclaw shout
    The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket
    The angry mother shouted at the teacher
  4. use wrongly or improperly or excessively

    5. <verb.change>
    Her husband often abuses alcohol
    while she was pregnant, she abused drugs


Abuse \A*buse"\, n. [F. abus, L. abusus, fr. abuti. See {Abuse},
v. t.]
1. Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad
purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an
abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an
abuse of language.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty,
as well as by the abuses of power. --Madison.

2. Physical ill treatment; injury. ``Rejoice . . . at the
abuse of Falstaff.'' --Shak.

3. A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as,
the abuses in the civil service.

Abuse after disappeared without a struggle..
--Macaulay.

4. Vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive
language; virulent condemnation; reviling.

The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of
abuse, came to blows. --Macaulay.

5. Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child. [Obs.]

Or is it some abuse, and no such thing? --Shak.

{Abuse of distress} (Law), a wrongful using of an animal or
chattel distrained, by the distrainer.

Syn: Invective; contumely; reproach; scurrility; insult;
opprobrium.

Usage: {Abuse}, {Invective}. Abuse is generally prompted by
anger, and vented in harsh and unseemly words. It is
more personal and coarse than invective. Abuse
generally takes place in private quarrels; invective
in writing or public discussions. Invective may be
conveyed in refined language and dictated by
indignation against what is blameworthy. --C. J.
Smith.


Abuse \A*buse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abused}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Abusing}.] [F. abuser; L. abusus, p. p. of abuti to abuse,
misuse; ab + uti to use. See {Use}.]
1. To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a
bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert;
as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of;
as, to abuse one's authority.

This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots
rapidly into popularity. --Froude.

2. To use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish
or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to
abuse one's powers, one's patience.

3. To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.

The . . . tellers of news abused the general.
--Macaulay.

4. To dishonor. ``Shall flight abuse your name?'' --Shak.

5. To violate; to ravish. --Spenser.

6. To deceive; to impose on. [Obs.]

Their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist
cloud, and abused by a double object. --Jer. Taylor.

Syn: To maltreat; injure; revile; reproach; vilify;
vituperate; asperse; traduce; malign.

  1. Schedule III, IV and V drugs pose a lesser danger and are deemed less subject to abuse.
  2. Two employees of the center were indicted earlier this year by a Rhode Island grand jury on charges of sexual abuse.
  3. The Twitchells are the second Christian Science parents to be prosecuted in Massachusetts and the first since 1971, when the state amended the child abuse and neglect law to recognize spiritual healing as an alternative to modern medicine.
  4. The number of political prisoners in Soviet mental institutions may have declined sharply, but the abuse of psychiatric practices remains widespread, an international group said Monday.
  5. An unusually large number of bills are moving through Congress, including legislation on welfare, drug abuse, spending and two trade measures.
  6. President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, using his constitutional powers, dismissed Ms. Bhutto's government Aug. 6 on charges of corruption, nepotism, political incompetence and abuse of power.
  7. A report from a substance abuse treatment center at St. John's Hospital in Salina states that Braun first got drunk at age 13 and first smoked marijuana at 15.
  8. Officials alleged the children were subjected to systematic beatings and other abuse.
  9. Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok said Thursday that police were investigating all aspects of the controversy, including the alleged abductions, the disappearance of Stompie and the charges of sexual abuse.
  10. Cash, a Country Music Hall of Fame member, has since campaigned against drug and alcohol abuse.
  11. The documentary shows Hilary, then 4, talking to her mother in a therapy session in which the child demonstrates with a doll alleged sex abuse by her father.
  12. "The real answer to alcohol abuse and any social costs associated with it is education of the public, and especially the young," said Gary Zizka of the National Beer Wholesalers' Association in a telephone interview Thursday from Washington.
  13. 'This is Congress responding to the street.' Mr De Leon has been a sharp critic of the powerful Guatemalan security forces for their widespread abuse of human rights.
  14. Last May, as a result of the Boone incident, the federal government set up a child sex abuse center on the reservation to provide counseling, but the center is understaffed and 38 people are on its waiting list, said Sylvia.
  15. Other witnesses said the problem of child abuse was compounded by jurisdictional problems, the isolation of the reservations and a simple lack of money.
  16. And he said he would return in September with a comprehensive plan to attack the "national menace" of drug abuse.
  17. Edson was indicted on two counts of obstruction of justice and two counts of failure to report child abuse.
  18. "The criminal acts and the acts of abuse of power, breach of public trust, neglect of duty and obstruction of justice demand that Gov. Mecham be removed from office," they said.
  19. During Lincoln's first year as president, abuse mounted in the North.
  20. The measure allows references to safe ways of engaging in sexual acts as well as the risks of engaging in promiscuous sex and intravenous drug abuse.
  21. She said her office handled 400 percent more elderly abuse cases in 1988 than in 1986, the year that crack use took off.
  22. And while most believed the government can reduce drug abuse, 55 percent expected the problem to worsen.
  23. All of the victims have overdosed on cocaine, but none seem to have a history of drug abuse.
  24. Prosecutors have based their case on the testimony of 11 child witnesses who told the jury they were subjected to sexual abuse while attending the Manhattan Beach school, which was shut down in 1984.
  25. A lawyers' association has asked Colorado Insurance Commissioner John Kezer to put a stop to an Aetna Life & Casulty advertising campaign on lawsuit abuse, contending that it misleads the public.
  26. The 1988 anti-drug abuse legislation urges the assistant secretary of state for international narcotics matters to seek establishment of a regional anti-narcotics center in the Caribbean.
  27. Houk, 39, was accused of twice failing to call the HRS abuse hotline when he received calls about Bradley.
  28. Asked to assess the seriousness of drug and alcohol abuse at nuclear power plants, he said: "We've seen increasing evidence over the past few years that we are getting positive tests and it is involving reactor operators.
  29. In November, after Murabito was found innocent in the sexual abuse case, his ex-wife disappeared with the children and began an eight-month journey to Loma via an "underground railway" that helps women in such situations.
  30. That opposition has been diminishing, however, as election-year pressures have increased for lawmakers to do something about drug abuse.
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