Word Meanings - ABUSAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Abuse. Whately .
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- ABUSE
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 shoots rapidly - ABUSER
One who abuses . - ABUSEFUL
Full of abuse; abusive. "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow. - SELF-ABUSE
1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution. - DISABUSE
To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right. To undeceive and disabuse the people. South. If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition,