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abusenoun harsh insulting languagehometown fans hurled abuse at the visiting team billingsgate, fulmination, invective, obloquy, scurrility, vitriol, vituperation blackguardismblasphemy, curse, execration, imprecation, malediction, profanityepithet, insult, put-down, slurexpletive, swearwordaspersion, bad-mouthing, belittlement, disparagement, revilement, vilificationcastigation, chastisement, criticism, excoriation, opprobrium, rebuke, reprimand, reproofbroadside, diatribe, harangue, polemic, tirade acclaim, applause, commendation, praisecompliments, congratulations, endearments, felicitationsadulation, blarney, flattery, overpraise, soft soap incorrect or improper usenaturally the furniture had received a lot of abuse from the 10 kids in the family misapplication, misemployment, misusage, misuse, misutilization, perversion mishandling, mismanagement, mismanagingill-treatment, ill-usage, maltreatment, mistreatmentdamage, destruction, ruin, spoiling, wreckingcorruption, debasement, desecration, profanation, prostitution application, employment, use, utilization abuseverbto inflict physical or emotional harm uponif you abuse your pet, he will always have an ugly disposition brutalize, bully, ill-treat, ill-use, kick around, maltreat, manhandle, mess over(slang), mishandle, mistreat, misuse molest, outrage, violateharass, harm, hurt, injure, oppress, persecute, torment, tortureburn, sandbag, victimize, wrongbeat (up), mess (up), rough (up), work (over) take apart care (for), cherish, foster, nurturebaby, cater (to), coddle, favor, gratify, humor, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil to criticize harshly and usually publiclya demanding, difficult patient who constantly abuses the nurses and aides assail, attack, bash, belabor, blast, castigate, excoriate, jump (on), lambaste(or lambast), potshot, savage, scathe, slam, trash, vituperate berate, harangue, harass, harry, revile, scold, whipblaspheme, curse, execrate, imprecate, profaneaffront, insult, slurasperse, bad-mouth, belittle, blackguard, disparage, put downlibel, slander, traduce, vilifychastise, chide, criticize, lace (into), rebuke, reprimandfulminate, lash (out) beat up on, light into, sail into, tie into acclaim, commend, compliment, hail, laud, praise to put to a bad or improper useif you abuse your baseball bat by using it to hammer nails, don't expect it to last long misapply, misemploy, misuse, pervert, profane, prostitute degrade, twistmismanagecorrupt, debase, desecrate apply, employ, use, utilizerespect to take unfair advantage ofabused his parents' trust, pilfering small amounts from them that he hoped they wouldn't notice capitalize (on), cash in (on), exploit, impose (on or upon), leverage, milk, pimp, play (on or upon), use, work jerk around, manipulate, mistreatbleed, cheat, fleece, overcharge, skin, soak, stickcommercialize, commodify trade on, walk on n.abuse, vituperation, invective, obloquy, billingsgate mean vehemently expressed condemnation or disapproval.abuse, the most general term, usually implies the anger of the speaker and stresses the harshness of the language.scathing verbal abuse vituperation implies fluent and sustained abuse.a torrent of vituperation invective implies a comparable vehemence but suggests greater verbal and rhetorical skill and may apply to a public denunciation.blistering political invective obloquy suggests defamation and consequent shame and disgrace.subjected to obloquy and derision billingsgate implies practiced fluency and variety of profane or obscene abuse.directed a stream of billingsgate at the cabdriver in the 15th century |