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abusingverbpresent participle of abuse to inflict physical or emotional harm uponif you abuse your pet, he will always have an ugly disposition brutalizing, bullying, ill-treating, ill-using, kicking around, maltreating, manhandling, messing over(slang), mishandling, mistreating, misusing molesting, outraging, violatingharassing, harming, hurting, injuring, oppressing, persecuting, tormenting, torturingburning, sandbagging, victimizing, wrongingbeating (up), messing (up), roughing (up), working (over) taking apart caring (for), cherishing, fostering, nurturingbabying, catering (to), coddling, favoring, gratifying, humoring, indulging, mollycoddling, pampering, spoiling to criticize harshly and usually publiclya demanding, difficult patient who constantly abuses the nurses and aides assailing, attacking, bashing, belaboring, blasting, castigating, excoriating, jumping (on), lambasting, potshotting, savaging, scathing, slamming, trashing, vituperating berating, haranguing, harassing, harrying, reviling, scolding, whippingblaspheming, cursing, execrating, imprecating, profaningaffronting, insulting, slurringaspersing, bad-mouthing, belittling, blackguarding, disparaging, putting downlibeling(or libelling), slandering, traducing, vilifyingchastising, chiding, criticizing, lacing (into), rebuking, reprimandingfulminating, lashing (out) beating up on, lighting into, sailing into, tying into acclaiming, commending, complimenting, hailing, lauding, praising 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 misapplying, misemploying, misusing, perverting, profaning, prostituting degrading, twistingmismanagingcorrupting, debasing, desecrating applying, employing, using, utilizingrespecting to take unfair advantage ofabused his parents' trust, pilfering small amounts from them that he hoped they wouldn't notice capitalizing (on), cashing in (on), exploiting, imposing (on or upon), leveraging, milking, pimping, playing (on or upon), using, working jerking around, manipulating, mistreatingbleeding, cheating, fleecing, overcharging, skinning, soaking, stickingcommercializing, commodifying trading on, walking on |