Usually means: Misuse or treat someone badly.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word ill-use:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. ill-use: Merriam-Webster
  2. ill-use: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ill-use: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ill-use, ill-use: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ill-use: Vocabulary.com
  6. ill-use: Wordnik
  7. ill-use: Wiktionary
  8. ill-use: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ill-use: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ill-use: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ill-use: Dictionary.com
  12. ill-use: Rhymezone
  13. ill-use: FreeDictionary.org
  14. ill-use: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. ill-use: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ill-use: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ill-use: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ill-use)

▸ verb:  To treat someone badly, cruelly or unkindly.
▸ noun:  Bad, cruel or unkind treatment.

Similar:
ill-treat, maltreat, abuse, mistreat, illtreat, do someone dirty, wrong, misuse, do somebody wrong, malign, more...

Opposite:
benefit, utilize, employ, make use of

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Similar:
ill-treat, maltreat, abuse, mistreat, illtreat, do someone dirty, wrong, misuse, do somebody wrong, malign, more...

Opposite:
benefit, utilize, employ, make use of



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