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To use ill; to maltreat; to misuse; to use with bad motives or to wrong purposes; as, to abuse rights or privileges. They that use this world as not abusing it. 7 Corinthians 7: .

To violate; to defile by improper sexual intercourse.

To deceive; to impose on. Nor be with all these tempting words abused.

To treat rudely, or with reproachful language; to revile. He mocked and abused them shamefully.

To pervert the meaning of; to misapply; as to abuse words.

Ill use; improper treatment or employment; application to a wrong purpose; as an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of religious privileges; abuse of advantagesLiberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power.

A corrupt practice or custom, as the abuses of government.

Rude speech; reproachful language addressed to a person; contumely; reviling words.

Seduction. After the abuse he forsook me.

Perversion of meaning; improper use or application; as an abuse of words.