Abuse Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-byo͝oz
To use wrongly and improperly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. misapply
  2. misappropriate
  3. mishandle
  4. misuse
  5. pervert
Antonyms:
  1. respect
  2. care for
  3. benefit
  4. prize
  5. esteem
  6. revere
To take advantage of unfairly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. exploit
  2. impose
  3. presume
  4. use
Antonyms:
  1. esteem
  2. honor
  3. respect
  4. cherish
  5. treasure
  6. revere
To treat badly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ill-use
  2. maltreat
  3. mistreat
  4. misuse
  5. ill-treat
  6. pervert
  7. damage
  8. harm
  9. hurt
  10. injure
  11. insult
  12. misapply
  13. desecrate
  14. mishandle
  15. persecute
  16. exploit
  17. oppress
  18. defile
  19. profane
  20. victimize
  21. wrong
  22. violate
  23. impair
  24. aggrieve
  25. batter
  26. molest
  27. misemploy
  28. misappropriate
  29. torment
  30. nag
  31. ruin
  32. affront
  33. mar
  34. bedevil
  35. spoil
  36. belittle
  37. vulgarize
  38. blaspheme
  39. outrage
  40. castigate
  41. do wrong by
  42. censure
  43. do wrong to
  44. cruelty
  45. curse
  46. defame
  47. prostitute
  48. pollute
  49. derogate
  50. harass
  51. manhandle
  52. disparage
  53. do an injustice to
  54. take-advantage-of
  55. fault
  56. flay
  57. overstrain
  58. overwork
  59. overtax
  60. overdrive
  61. impute
  62. overburden
  63. invective
  64. impose upon
  65. malign
  66. deprave
  67. taint
  68. debase
  69. manipulate
  70. corrupt
  71. maul
  72. squander
  73. waste
  74. dissipate
  75. exhaust
  76. obloquy
  77. do one's worst
  78. knock about
  79. opprobrium
  80. punish
  81. rail
  82. rape
  83. ravish
  84. reproach
  85. revile
  86. scathe
  87. scold
  88. scurrility
  89. slander
  90. tax
  91. traduce
  92. vilify
  93. vituperate
  94. vituperation
  95. step
Antonyms:
  1. help
  2. defend
  3. protect
  4. cherish
  5. befriend
  6. respect
  7. preserve
Insulting language
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. invective
  2. contumely
  3. revilement
  4. billingsgate
  5. vituperation
  6. obloquy
  7. insult
  8. scurrility
  9. vilification
  10. abusiveness
  11. calumny
  12. castigation
  13. condemnation
  14. railing
  15. defamation
  16. desecration
  17. excoriation
  18. execration
  19. humiliation
  20. infamy
  21. injury
  22. reviling
  23. maltreatment
  24. misapplication
  25. mistreatment
  26. misuse
  27. objurgation
  28. scurrilousness
  29. offense
  30. opprobrium
  31. outrage
  32. perversion
  33. profanation
  34. rape
  35. reproach
  36. sassiness
  37. tirade
  38. violation
Antonyms:
  1. praise
  2. commendation
  3. approval
  4. plaudit
  5. acclamation
  6. adulation

Words Related to Abuse

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. blame
  2. treat well
  3. abuser
  4. intimidation
  5. sexual abuse
  6. violence
  7. bully
  8. harrassment
  9. child abuse

Abuse Sentence Examples

  • Fine, but I'm not going to let him verbally abuse you.

  • When he doth abuse it, judge."

  • Merry senseless words of abuse flowed freely.

  • The electoral districts so formed are expected to be equal in proportion to the number of inhabitants; but this method has led to much abuse in the past, through the making of unequal districts for partisan purposes.

  • It is also used as a term of abuse, meaning "boor."

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