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Abuse 滥用 重点词汇 V N Means Latin Meaning

Front abuse
Pron [ə'bjuːs]
Back 【ABUSE】
Don't abuse your health by working when you ought to be sleeping or resting.
别滥用你的健康而不眠不休地工作。
【重点词汇】
abuse 1. v. 滥用 2. n. 滥用
ought to: 应该
【ABUSE】
His abuse of power has turned his friends against him.
他的滥用权力使他的朋友转而反对他。
【重点词汇】
abuse 1. v. 滥用 2. n. 滥用
Vocab
abusecruel or inhumane treatment

If you abuse someone, it means you are hurting that person, mentally, emotionally, or physically. If someone else is harming you, you are yourself suffering from abuse.

The word abuse is made up of two parts — "use," which means to employ, and ab-, a Latin prefix meaning "away" — and as a whole comes from the Latin abūsus, meaning "misuse," or "use wrongly." It began as a verb and became a noun in the mid-15th century. Abuse also refers to anything that is employed improperly or to excess, such as the abuse of alcohol or drugs.

All forms of 'abuse' will appear on average once every 148 pages.
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abused
abuser
abusive
disabuse
self-abuse
unabused
abusively
disabused

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