abuse

abuse is a Verb

Definition:

[1] To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one`s authority. This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity. Froude.

[2] To use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to abuse one`s powers, one`s patience.

[3] To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.

[4] To dishonor. "Shall flight abuse your name" Shak.

[5] To violate; to ravish. Spenser.

[6] To deceive; to impose on. [Obs.] Their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud, and abused by a double object. Jer. Taylor.