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abuse
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)
- 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
- Misuse; improper use; perversion. [from mid 16th c.]
- 1788, Federalist, James Madison, Number 63
- Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power.
- 1788, Federalist, James Madison, Number 63
- (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception. [from mid 16th c. – mid 17th c.]
- Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies. [from mid 16th 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
- 1950 February 11, Alhaji Na-Alhaji in Gaskiya Fa Ti Kwabo:
- (now rare) Catachresis. [from late 16th c.]
- Synonym: abusio
- Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment. [from late 16th c.]
- Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis. [from late 16th 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)
- (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.]
- (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly. [from mid 16th c.]
- Synonyms: maltreat, injure
- (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 17th 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.
- (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 20th c.]
- (transitive, archaic) To violate; defile; to rape. [from around 1350 to 1470]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- (transitive, obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate. [from around 1350 to 1470 – mid 18th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of. [from late 15th c. – early 19th 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
- 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
- (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse. [from late 15th century – mid 16th 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
- first-person singular present indicative of abuser
- third-person singular present indicative of abuser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of abuser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of abuser
- second-person singular imperative of abuser
Anagrams
- aubes
Latin
Participle
ab?se
- vocative masculine singular of ab?sus
Portuguese
Verb
abuse
- first-person singular present subjunctive of abusar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of abusar
- first-person singular imperative of abusar
- third-person singular imperative of abusar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?buse/, [a???u.se]
Verb
abuse
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of abusar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of abusar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of abusar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of abusar.
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scandal
English
Etymology
From Middle French scandale (“indignation caused by misconduct or defamatory speech”), from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“that on which one trips, cause of offense”, literally “stumbling block”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (skándalon, “a trap laid for an enemy, a cause of moral stumbling”), from Proto-Indo-European *skand- (“to jump”). Cognate with Latin scand? (“to climb”). First attested from Old Northern French escandle, but the modern word is a reborrowing. Doublet, via Old French esclandre, of slander.
Sense evolution from "cause of stumbling, that which causes one to sin, stumbling block" to "discredit to reputation, that which brings shame, thing of disgrace" is possibly due to early influence from other similar sounding words for infamy and disgrace (compare Old English scand (“ignominity, scandal, disgraceful thing”), Old High German scanda (“ignominy, disgrace”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (skanda, “shame, disgrace”)). See shand, shend.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?skænd?l/
- Rhymes: -ænd?l
Noun
scandal (countable and uncountable, plural scandals)
- An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
- Well, yes, a couple of leaks are all very well, but it takes more than that... A big scandal perhaps. A political scandal. Or a scandal about something people really understand: Sex... or money.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
- Damage to one's reputation.
- Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
- (theology) Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit.
- (theology) Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense.
- Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
- 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, chapter 1
- Scandal at Barchester affirmed that had it not been for the beauty of his daughter, Mr. Harding would have remained a minor canon; but here probably Scandal lied, as she so often does; for even as a minor canon no one had been more popular among his reverend brethren in the close, than Mr. Harding; and Scandal, before she had reprobated Mr. Harding for being made precentor by his friend the bishop, had loudly blamed the bishop for having so long omitted to do something for his friend Mr. Harding.
- 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, chapter 1
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Korean: ??? (seukaendeul)
Translations
Verb
scandal (third-person singular simple present scandals, present participle scandalling or scandaling, simple past and past participle scandalled or scandaled)
- (obsolete) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.
- (obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.
- 1855, Robert Potts, Liber Cantabrigiensis
- A propensity to scandal may partly proceed from an inability to distinguish the proper objects of censure
- 1855, Robert Potts, Liber Cantabrigiensis
Romanian
Etymology
From French scandale, from Latin scandalum.
Noun
scandal n (plural scandaluri)
- scandal
Declension
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