different between misuse vs nonuse

English

Etymology 1

mis- +? use (noun)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s?ju?s/

Noun

misuse (countable and uncountable, plural misuses)

1. An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something.

Translations

Etymology 2

mis- +? use (verb)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s?ju?z/

Verb

misuse (third-person singular simple present misuses, present participle misusing, simple past and past participle misused or (obsolete) misust)

1. (transitive) To use (something) incorrectly. [from 14th c.]
2. (transitive) To abuse or mistreat (something or someone). [from 14th c.]
3. (transitive) To rape (a woman); later more generally, to sexually abuse (someone). [from 14th c.]
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 326:

     “If that is true she would be the first case I have ever heard of, as most female captives are misused by the entire tribe.”

4. (obsolete, transitive) To abuse verbally, to insult. [16th-17th c.]

Translations

Anagrams

• Iseums, Muises, mussie

English

Alternative forms

• non-use

Etymology

From non- +? use.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n?n?ju?s/

Noun

nonuse (plural nonuses)

1. The failure to make use of something. [from 16th c.]
   • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 771:

     Sacred values, and the taboos that protect them, can be attached to resources that we decide are genuinely precious, such as identifiable lives, national borders, and the nonuse of chemical and nuclear weapons.