Abuse

[ə'bjuːz] or [ə'bjus]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; 'when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse'; 'they yelled insults at the visiting team'.

(verb.) use wrongly or improperly or excessively; 'Her husband often abuses alcohol'; 'while she was pregnant, she abused drugs'.

(verb.) use foul or abusive language towards; 'The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket'; 'The angry mother shouted at the teacher'.

伊莱錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.

(v. t.) To dishonor.

(v. t.) To violate; to ravish.

(v. t.) To deceive; to impose on.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) Physical ill treatment; injury.

(v. t.) A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service.

(v. t.) Vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling.

(v. t.) Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child.

彻姬塔編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Misuse, misemploy, misapply, pervert, prostitute, desecrate, profane, make an ill use of.[2]. Maltreat, harm, injure, hurt, ill-treat, ill-use.[3]. Revile, reproach, vilify, slander, traduce, defame, asperse, malign, blacken, disparage, berate, rate, upbraid, calumniate, lampoon, satirize, lash, PASQUINADE, VITUPERATE, rail at, sneer at, speak ill of, accuse falsely, damn with faint praise.[4]. Violate, outrage, ravish, deflour.

n. [1]. Misapplication, misuse, misemployment, profanation, prostitution, desecration, perversion, ill-use.[2]. Maltreatment, outrage, ill-treatment, bad treatment.[3]. Corrupt practice.[4]. Vituperation, railing, reviling, contumely, obloquy, opprobrium, insult, scurrility, ribaldry, JAW, foul invective, rude reproach.

手打:莉莎

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Injure, damage, spoil, maltreat, treat-all, ill-use, ill-treat, retile,scandalize, disparage, reproach, upbraid, asperse, malign, slander, vituperate,prostitute, defame, pervert, misuse, misemploy, vilify

ANT:Tend, protect, conserve, consider, regard, shield, cherish, praise, extol,laud, vindicate, panegyrize, respect

SYN:Mistreatment, invective, ill-treatment, opprobrium, scurrility, vituperation,ribaldry, obloquy, reproach, insolence, misusage, ill-usage

ANT:Good-usage, good-treatment, kindness, praise, deference, respect

整理:罗威娜

解釋/意思:

v.t. to use wrongly: to pervert: to revile: to violate.—ns. Abuse (ab-ūs′) ill use: misapplication: reproach: vituperation; Abū′sion (Spens.) abuse: deception: reproach.—adj. Abus′ive containing or practising abuse: full of abuses: vituperative.—adv. Abus′ively.—n. Abus′iveness.

手打:利蒂希娅