💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Abusage"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| abusionnoun | (obsolete) Misuse, abuse; in particular, illegal behaviour; verbal, physical or sexual abuse. |
| abusementnoun | Abuse. |
| abusenoun | Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. |
| misusagenoun | Improper usage (especially of words). |
| misusenoun | An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something. |
| re-abuseverb | To abuse again. |
| reabusenoun | Repeated abuse. |
| misutilizationnoun | misuse |
| aberrancynoun | The condition of being aberrant; an aberrance. |
| abusionoun | (rhetoric) Catachresis. |
| mishandleverb | (transitive) To deal with a situation incorrectly or ineffectively; to make a mistake in handling a situation. |
| abominationnoun | (countable) An abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit. |
| misapplicationnoun | The misuse of something, incorrectly using (applying) something, a wrong application. |
| drug abusenoun | Misuse of, or overindulgence in, drugs; substance abuse. |
| aberrationnoun | The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state. |
| useagenoun | Misspelling of usage. [Habit, practice.] |
| anomalynoun | A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier. |
| abuse of discretionnoun | (law) The rendering of a decision by a court that is so unreasonable in light of the facts of the case or is such an unreasonable deviation from legal precedent that it must be reversed. |
| wastagenoun | (uncountable) The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process. |
| sexual abusenoun | (crime) Any sexual activity that is undesired by one participant but forced on them nonetheless, especially when considered to be more sustained or frequent than an incident of sexual assault. |
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