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ABUSES
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
3
pts
Big
3
pts
Super Big
3
pts
ABUSES is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.
ABUSES root ABUSE-s
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noun
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countableuncountableImproper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
- human rights abuses
- All abuse, whether physical, verbal, psychological or sexual, is bad.
- countableuncountableMisuse; improper use; perversion.
- countableobsoleteuncountableA delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
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countableuncountableCoarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
- children hurling abuse at each other
- archaiccountableuncountableCatachresis.
- countableuncountablePhysical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
- countableuncountableViolation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
verb
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transitiveTo put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert
- He abused his authority.
- transitiveTo injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
- transitiveTo attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
- transitiveTo 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.
- archaictransitiveTo violate; defile; to rape; (reflexive) to masturbate.
- obsoletetransitiveMisrepresent; adulterate.
- obsoletetransitiveTo deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
- ScotlandobsoletetransitiveDisuse.