Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. / Misuse; improper use; perversion.

(transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert

Abuse. / (obsolete) A misleading.

plural of abusement

The characteristic of being abuseful.

One who abuses someone or something. / (obsolete) One who uses in an illegal or wrongful use.

Having been a victim of some form of abuse, most commonly child abuse or domestic violence. / Overused; used profligately or in excess. / (obsolete) Deluded, deceived.

simple past tense and past participle of abuse

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abuse

(rare) Full of abuse; abusive.