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- hometown fans hurled abuse at the visiting team
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- naturally the furniture had received a lot of abuse from the 10 kids in the family
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abuses
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of abuses (Entry 2 of 2)
- if you abuse your pet, he will always have an ugly disposition
Synonyms for abuses
- brutalizes,
- bullies,
- ill-treats,
- ill-uses,
- kicks around,
- maltreats,
- manhandles,
- messes over
- [slang],
- mishandles,
- mistreats,
- misuses
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- a demanding, difficult patient who constantly abuses the nurses and aides
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- assails,
- attacks,
- bashes,
- belabors,
- blasts,
- castigates,
- excoriates,
- jumps (on),
- lambastes
- (or lambasts),
- potshots,
- savages,
- scathes,
- slams,
- trashes,
- vituperates
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- if you abuse your baseball bat by using it to hammer nails, don't expect it to last long
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- abused his parents' trust, pilfering small amounts from them that he hoped they wouldn't notice
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“Abuses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abuses. Accessed 12 Aug. 2022.
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