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Abuse vs Nettle - What's the difference?

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Abuse is a related term of nettle.


As verbs the difference between abuse and nettle

is that abuse is while nettle is (literally) of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.

As a noun nettle is

any plant, the foliage of which is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.

abuse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) abusen, then from either (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
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    • All abuse , whether physical, verbal, psychological or sexual, is bad.
  • Misuse; improper use; perversion.
  • * 1788 , , Number 63
    • Liberty may be endangered by the abuses' of liberty, as well as by the ' abuses of power.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) 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?}}
  • (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)   Catachresis.
  • Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
  • Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
    • Usage notes
    * Typically followed by the word of .
    Synonyms
    * invective, contumely, reproach, scurrility, insult, opprobrium
    Derived terms
    * abusefully * abuse of distress * alcohol abuse * child abuse * drug abuse * self-abuse

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) abusen, from (etyl) abuser, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (abus)
  • 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.
  • * Macaulay
    • The tellers of news abused the general.
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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.
    • (Spenser)
  • (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
    • 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
  • (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse.
    • Synonyms
    * maltreat, injure, revile, reproach, vilify, vituperate, asperse, traduce, malign * See also
    Derived terms
    * abusable * abusage * abuser
    Related terms
    * abusive * abusively * abusiveness

    References

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    nettle

    English

    (wikipedia nettle) (Urtica)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any plant, the foliage of which is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
  • # Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica , the stinging nettles:
  • ## Most, but not all, subspecies of ,
  • ## ;
  • # Wood nettle ();
  • # (vern)s and (spurge nettle)s of genus :
  • ## , (bull nettle), (spurge nettle),
  • ## , (Texas bull nettle),
  • ## , (bull nettle),
  • ## (vern) or (tree nettle)s:
  • ### Various species of the genus ,
  • ### ,
  • ### ;
  • # (rock nettle) ();
  • # (small-leaved nettle) ().
  • Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
  • # (ball nettle) ();
  • # , (bull nettle), (silver-leaf nettle), (white horse-nettle);
  • # , (western horse-nettle), (robust horse-nettle);
  • # , (horse-nettle);
  • # Celtis .
  • Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the same family (Lamiaceae as the stinging nettles, that resemble the species of Urtica :
  • # (dead nettle), (dumb nettle) (Lamium ), particularly , (white nettle);
  • # (false nettle) ();
  • # (flame nettle) or (painted nettle) (Coleus );
  • # (hedge nettle) (Stachys );
  • # (hemp nettle) ();
  • # (horse nettle)s:
  • ## ,
  • ## , (ball-nettle), (Carolina horse-nettle),
  • ## , (bull nettle), (silver-leaf nettle), (white horse-nettle);
  • # (nilgiri nettle), (Himalayan giant nettle) ().
  • Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.

    • Derived terms

    * grasp the nettle * nettle rash * nettlelike * nettlesome * nettly

    Verb

    (nettl) (transitive)
  • (literally) Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.
    • The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.
  • (figuratively) To pique, irritate, vex or provoke someone.

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