Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. / (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.

In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.

The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.

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

present participle of abuse

plural of abuser

plural of abuse

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abuse

The characteristic of being abuseful.