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We found 49 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word abuse: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "abuse" is defined. General (29 matching dictionaries) abuse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] abuse: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] abuse: Vocabulary.com [home, info] abuse, abuse: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] abuse: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Abuse, abuse: Wordnik [home, info] abuse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] Abuse: Wiktionary [home, info] abuse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] abuse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] abuse: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] abuse: Dictionary.com [home, info] abuse (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info] abuse: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] abuse: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] Abuse (computer game), Abuse (game), Abuse (video game), Abuse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Abuse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] abuse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] abuse: Rhymezone [home, info] abuse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] abuse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] Abuse: Encarta® Online Encyclopedia, North American Edition [home, info] abuse: Free Dictionary [home, info] abuse: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] abuse: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] abuse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] abuse: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] Art (2 matching dictionaries) abuse: Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric [home, info] ABUSE: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info] Business (7 matching dictionaries) abuse: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info] abuse: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info] Abuse: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary) [home, info] abuse: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info] ABUSE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info] abuse: Legal dictionary [home, info] abuse: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info] Computing (2 matching dictionaries) Abuse: Game Dictionary [home, info] abuse: Encyclopedia [home, info] Medicine (5 matching dictionaries) Abuse: Reactive Attachment Disorder [home, info] Abuse: Merck Manuals [home, info] Abuse: MedFriendly Glossary [home, info] abuse: online medical dictionary [home, info] abuse: Medical dictionary [home, info] Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries) abuse: Sociology [home, info] Abuse: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info] abuse: Idioms [home, info] Sports (1 matching dictionary) Abuse: Sports Definitions [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (abuse) ▸ noun:  a rude expression intended to offend or hurt ("When a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse") ▸ noun:  improper or excessive use ▸ noun:  cruel or inhumane treatment ▸ verb:  use foul or abusive language towards ("The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket") ▸ verb:  treat badly ("This boss abuses his workers") ▸ verb:  change the inherent purpose or function of something ("Don't abuse the system") ▸ Word origin