Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
human rights abuses
Misuse; improper use; perversion.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power.
A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?
From Middle English abusen, then from either Old French abus (“improper use”), or from Latin abūsus (“misused, using up”), perfect active participle of abūtor (“make improper use of, consume, abuse”),...
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Blows with the fist should be given on the back of the woman, which she is sitting on the lap of the man, and she should give blows in return, abusing the man as if she were angry, and making the cooing and the weeping sounds.