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All abusage synonyms

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noun abusage

  • abuse — Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.
  • harm — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
  • maltreatment — to treat or handle badly, cruelly, or roughly; abuse: to maltreat a prisoner.
  • mistreatment — to treat badly or abusively.
  • prostitution — the act or practice of engaging in sexual intercourse for money.
  • waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
  • corruption — Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of authority or power.
  • desecration — a desecrating or being desecrated
  • misapplication — to make a wrong application or use of.
  • perversion — the act of perverting.
  • solecism — a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage, as unflammable and they was.
  • profanation — the act of profaning; desecration; defilement; debasement.
  • dissipation — the act of dissipating.
  • barbarism — If you refer to someone's behaviour as barbarism, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel or uncivilized.
  • injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
  • ill-treat — to treat badly; maltreat; abuse.
  • malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
  • catachresis — the incorrect use of words, as luxuriant for luxurious
  • misusage — wrong or improper usage, as of words.
  • misemploy — to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
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