Abuse: v.tr. (word from medieval Latin abusare).
The verb "abuse" has several meanings:
I) Indirect transitive verb: To use badly, with excess.
To use a thing without abusing it (exceeding measure).
Abuse alcohol, sweets.
Abuse one's authority, one's power (overstep).
To abuse someone's patience.
Familiar: Calling at three in the morning, he's really abusing it! (exaggerate),
Region: ambition.
Phrase: It is abuse: there is abuse. Ten euros ...
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