Abuse vs Defacement - What's the difference?
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Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
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Misuse; improper use; perversion.
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(obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
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Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
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(now, rare) Â Catachresis.
Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse one's authority.
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To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
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To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
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To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually.
(archaic) To violate; defile; to rape.
(obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate.
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(obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
* 1651-2 , , "Sermon VI, The House of Feasting; or, The Epicures Measures", in The works of Jeremy Taylor , Volume 1, page 283 (1831), edited by Thomas Smart Hughes
(transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse.
An act of defacing]]; an instance of visibly marring or [[disfigure, disfiguring something.
An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.
(heraldry, vexillology) A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.
As nouns the difference between abuse and defacement
is that abuse is improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom while defacement is an act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.As a verb abuse
is to put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse one's authority.abuse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) abusen, then from either (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- All abuse , whether physical, verbal, psychological or sexual, is bad.
- Liberty may be endangered by the abuses' of liberty, as well as by the ' abuses of power.
citation, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
Usage notes
* Typically followed by the word of .Synonyms
* invective, contumely, reproach, scurrility, insult, opprobriumDerived terms
* abusefully * abuse of distress * alcohol abuse * child abuse * drug abuse * self-abuseVerb
(abus)- The tellers of news abused the general.
- (Spenser)
- When Cyrus had espied Astyages and his fellows coming drunk from a banquet loaden with variety of follies and filthiness, their legs failing them, their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud and abused by a double object
Synonyms
* maltreat, injure, revile, reproach, vilify, vituperate, asperse, traduce, malign * See alsoDerived terms
* abusable * abusage * abuserAnagrams
* English heteronyms ----defacement
English
Noun
(en noun)- Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.
- The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.