different between abuse vs satire

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English abusen, then from either Old French abus (“improper use”), or from Latin ab?sus (“misused, using up”), perfect active participle of ab?tor (“make improper use of, consume, abuse”), from ab (“away”) + ?tor (“to use”). Equivalent to ab- +? use.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bju?s/
• (General American) enPR: ?byo?os', IPA^(key): /??bjus/
• Hyphenation: ab?use

Noun

abuse (countable and uncountable, plural abuses)

1. Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. [from around 1350 to 1470]

   Synonym: misuse

2. Misuse; improper use; perversion. [from mid 16^th c.]
   • 1788, Federalist, James Madison, Number 63

     Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power.
3. (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception. [from mid 16^th c. – mid 17^th c.]
4. Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies. [from mid 16^th c.]
   • 1950 February 11, Alhaji Na-Alhaji in Gaskiya Fa Ti Kwabo:

     But he and all the southerners who indulge in this abuse in the newspapers should realize that this will not enable us to find a solution to our problem but will merely aggravate it.

   Synonyms: invective, contumely, reproach, scurrility, insult, opprobrium

5. (now rare) Catachresis. [from late 16^th c.]

   Synonym: abusio

6. Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment. [from late 16^th c.]
7. Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis. [from late 16^th c.]

Usage notes

• (misuse, perversion): Typically followed by the word of.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English abusen, from Middle French abuser, from Latin ab?sus (“misused, using up”), perfect active participle of ab?tor (“to use up, misuse, consume”), from ab (“from, away from”) + ?tor (“to use”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bju?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??bjuz/, enPR: ?byo?oz'
• Hyphenation: abuse

Verb

abuse (third-person singular simple present abuses, present participle abusing, simple past and past participle abused)

1. (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert [from around 1350 to 1470.]
2. (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly. [from mid 16^th c.]

   Synonyms: maltreat, injure
3. (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage. [from early 17^th c.]

   Synonyms: revile, reproach, vilify, vituperate; see also Thesaurus:offend

   • 1991, Yakubu Yahaya, quoted in: 2001, Toyin Falola, Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies, p. 199:

     So we were angered by this and we could not tolerate this one because prophet Mohammed has been abused so many times in this country. Awolowo abused him sometimes ago saying that he was more successful and popular that^[sic] Mohammed and Jesus.
4. (transitive) To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually. [from mid 20^th c.]
5. (transitive, archaic) To violate; defile; to rape. [from around 1350 to 1470]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

6. (transitive, obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate. [from around 1350 to 1470 – mid 18^th c.]
7. (transitive, obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of. [from late 15^th c. – early 19^th c.]
   • 1651-2, Jeremy Taylor, "Sermon VI, The House of Feasting; or, The Epicures Measures", in The works of Jeremy Taylor, Volume 1, page 283 (1831), edited by Thomas Smart Hughes

     When Cyrus had espied Astyages and his fellows coming drunk from a banquet loaden with variety of follies and filthiness, their legs failing them, their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud and abused by a double object

8. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse. [from late 15^th century – mid 16^th c.]

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002) , “abuse”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN, page 10

Anagrams

• aubes, beaus

French

Verb

abuse

1. first-person singular present indicative of abuser
2. third-person singular present indicative of abuser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of abuser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of abuser
5. second-person singular imperative of abuser

Anagrams

• aubes

Latin

Participle

ab?se

1. vocative masculine singular of ab?sus

Portuguese

Verb

abuse

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of abusar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of abusar
3. first-person singular imperative of abusar
4. third-person singular imperative of abusar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?buse/, [a???u.se]

Verb

abuse

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of abusar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of abusar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of abusar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of abusar.

English

Etymology

From Middle French satire, from Old French, from Latin satira, from earlier satura, from lanx satura (“full dish”), from feminine of satur. Altered in Latin by influence of Ancient Greek ??????? (sáturos, “satyr”), on the mistaken notion that the form is related to the Greek ????????? ????? (saturikón dráma, “satyr drama”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sæta??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sæta??/
• Hyphenation: sat?ire

Noun

satire (countable and uncountable, plural satires)

1. (uncountable) A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. Humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.
2. (countable) A satirical work.

3. (uncountable, dated) Severity of remark.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• satire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• satire in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Usage notes

Often confused with parody, which does not necessarily have an element of social change.

Anagrams

• striae, striæ, terais, terasi

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sati?r?/, [sa?t?i??]

Noun

satire c (singular definite satiren, plural indefinite satirer)

1. satire

Inflection

Related terms

• satiriker ("satirist")
• satirisere ("satirize")
• satirisk ("satiric", "satirical")

Further reading

• satire on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French satire, German Satire or Latin satira, from Latin satur but influenced by Ancient Greek ??????? (sáturos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa??ti?.r?/
• Hyphenation: sa?ti?re
• Rhymes: -i?r?

Noun

satire f (plural satires or satiren)

1. A satire.

Derived terms

• satiriek
• satirisch
• satirist

Related terms

• satyr

French

Noun

satire f (plural satires)

1. satire

Further reading

• “satire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

satire f

1. plural of satira

Anagrams

• ariste, estrai, restai, restia, risate, ritesa, sartie, starei

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin satura, satira

Noun

satire m (definite singular satiren, indefinite plural satirer, definite plural satirene)

1. satire

Derived terms

• satirisk

References

• “satire” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin satura, satira

Noun

satire m (definite singular satiren, indefinite plural satirar, definite plural satirane)

1. satire

Derived terms

• satirisk

References

• “satire” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.