Abuse, v. a.
- 1. Misuse, misemploy, misapply, pervert, prostitute, desecrate, dishonor, profane, pollute, make an ill
use of, deceive, impose on, betray, cajole, seduce by cajolery.
- 2. Maltreat, harm, injure, hurt, ill-treat, ill-use.
- 3. Revile, reproach, vilify, slander, traduce, defame, asperse, inveigh against, carp at, malign, blacken,
disparage, berate, rate, betongue, upbraid, calumniate, lampoon, satirize, lash, pasquinade, rail at, sneer
at, speak ill of, calumniate, treat with contumely, pour contumely on. See vituperate.
- 4. Violate, outrage, ravish, deflour.
Abuse, n.
- 1. Misapplication, misuse, misemployment, dishonor, dishonoring, profanation, prostitution, desecration,
pollution, perversion, ill-use.
- 2. Maltreatment, outrage, ill-treatment, bad treatment.
- 3. Corrupt practice, malfeasance, malversation.
- 4. Vituperation, railing, reviling, vilification, defamation, aspersion, disparagement, rating, upbraiding,
contumely, obloquy, opprobrium, insult, scurrility, ribaldry, foul invective, rude reproach, billingsgate.
Abusive, a. Reproachful, opprobrious, scurrilous, ribald, contumelious, vituperative, condemnatory, damnatory, invective, carping, calumnious, denunciatory, injurious, offensive, reviling, insulting, insolent.
Abut against. Abut upon. Meet (end to end or side to side), be contiguous, adjoin, be adjacent to, terminate at or upon, be conterminous with, be juxtaposed.
Abutment, n.
- 1. Abutting, being contiguous or adjacent, adjoining, adjacency, contiguity, juxtaposition.
- 2. Shore-pier, end-pier, terminal pier, terminal support.