profligate English
Adjective
( en adjective)
(obsolete) Overthrown, ruined.
* Hudibras
- The foe is profligate , and run.
Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
* 2013 , Ben Smith, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24503988]", BBC Sport , 19 October 2013:
- Jay Rodriguez headed over and Dani Osvaldo might have done better with only David De Gea to beat and, as Southampton bordered on the profligate , United were far more ruthless.
Immoral; abandoned to vice.
* Roscommon
- a race more profligate than we
* Dryden
- Made prostitute and profligate muse.
Synonyms
* (inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly) extravagant, wasteful, prodigal
* immoral, licentious
* See also
Derived terms
* profligateness
Noun
( en noun)
An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
Synonyms
* (overly wasteful or extravagant individual) wastrel
* See also and
Verb
( profligat)
(obsolete) To drive away; to overcome.
* 1840 , Alexander Walker, Woman Physiologically Considered as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial Slavery, Infidelity and Divorce , page 157:
- Such a stipulation would remove one powerful temptation to profligate pennyless seducers, of whom there are too many prowling in the higher circles ;
Synonyms
* overcome
Related terms
* profligacy
* profligately
* profligateness
* profligation
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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.
*
- 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.
*
Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
*
(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.
*
To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
*
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.
*
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.
*
(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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