: subjected to harmful or improper treatment : having suffered abuse
providing support for abused children/women
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Fey’s next big project, the Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, wrung humor out of an abused, traumatized kidnapping victim’s adventures in a cruel city plagued by economic inequality.
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Judy Berman, Time, 1 May 2025
Todaro is the current vice president of the Buffalo chapter of Bikers Against Child Abuse, a group that uses community intervention to protect abused children.
—Lesley Cosme Torres, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The ear is at once a clue and a harbinger that leads him to an abused woman, Dorothy (Rossellini).
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Since 2019, The Gentle Barn in Christiana, Tennessee, has been a nonprofit respite for abused or neglected animals that couldn't be housed elsewhere.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 29 July 2024
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Judy Berman, Time, 1 May 2025
Todaro is the current vice president of the Buffalo chapter of Bikers Against Child Abuse, a group that uses community intervention to protect abused children.
—Lesley Cosme Torres, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The ear is at once a clue and a harbinger that leads him to an abused woman, Dorothy (Rossellini).
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Since 2019, The Gentle Barn in Christiana, Tennessee, has been a nonprofit respite for abused or neglected animals that couldn't be housed elsewhere.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 29 July 2024
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“Abused.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abused. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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