English Dictionary

abusive

/əˈbjuː.sɪv/

adj

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

He was verbally abusive towards his coworkers.

意味（1）

Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.

All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me and my colleagues.

意味（2）

(obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.

an abusive treaty

意味（3）

(archaic) Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.

[…] to begin in this vacation the foundation of a trifling subject which might shroud in his leaves the abusive enormities of these our times.

意味（4）

Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.

意味（5）

Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.

I am […]necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof.

意味（6）

(archaic) Catachrestic.