📖 Определения и значения для слова abuse
📒 the use of something in a way that is wrong or harmful
- alcohol/drug abuse
- The system of paying cash bonuses is open to abuse (= might be used in the wrong way).
- The legal system is open to abuse.
📒 unfair, cruel or violent treatment of somebody
- child abuse
- sexual abuse
- reported abuses by the secret police
📒 rude and offensive remarks, usually made when somebody is very angry
- to scream/hurl/shout abuse
- a stream/torrent of abuse
- The man burst into a torrent of foul-mouthed racist abuse.