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General (30 matching dictionaries)

1. abuse: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. abuse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. abuse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. abuse: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. abuse: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. abuse, abuse: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Abuse, abuse: Wordnik [home, info]
8. abuse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. abuse: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. abuse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. abuse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. abuse: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. abuse: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. abuse (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. abuse: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. abuse: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. Abuse (computer game), Abuse (video game), Abuse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
18. Abuse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
19. abuse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
20. abuse: Rhymezone [home, info]
21. abuse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
22. abuse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
23. Abuse: Encarta® Online Encyclopedia, North American Edition [home, info]
24. abuse: Free Dictionary [home, info]
25. abuse: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
26. abuse: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
27. abuse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
28. abuse: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

29. abuse: Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric [home, info]
30. ABUSE: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]

Business (7 matching dictionaries)

31. abuse: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
32. abuse: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
33. Abuse: DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary) [home, info]
34. abuse: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
35. ABUSE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
36. abuse: Legal dictionary [home, info]
37. abuse: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

38. Abuse: Game Dictionary [home, info]
39. abuse: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)

40. Abuse: Reactive Attachment Disorder [home, info]
41. Abuse: Merck Manuals [home, info]
42. Abuse: MedFriendly Glossary [home, info]
43. abuse: online medical dictionary [home, info]
44. abuse: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

45. abuse: Sociology [home, info]
46. Abuse: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
47. abuse: Idioms [home, info]

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

48. Abuse: Sports Definitions [home, info]

(Note: See abusing for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (abuse) ▸ noun:  a rude expression intended to offend or hurt ("When a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse") ▸ noun:  improper or excessive use ▸ noun:  cruel or inhumane treatment ▸ verb:  use foul or abusive language towards ("The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket") ▸ verb:  treat badly ("This boss abuses his workers") ▸ verb:  change the inherent purpose or function of something ("Don't abuse the system") ▸ Also see abusing ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to abuse ▸ Usage examples for abuse ▸ Idioms related to abuse (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing abuse ▸ Words that often appear near abuse ▸ Rhymes of abuse ▸ Invented words related to abuse