ABUSE vs MALTREATMENT: NOUN
- Violation; defilement: as, self-abuse. Deception.
- Ill treatment of a person; injury; insult; dishonor; especially, ill treatment in words; contumelious language.
- Ill use; improper treatment or employment; application to a wrong purpose; improper use or application: as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of religious privileges; abuse of advantages; abuse of words.
- An unjust or wrongful practice.
- Insulting or hurtful language, especially when used to threaten or demoralize.
- Sexual abuse.
- Physical maltreatment or violence.
- Rough treatment or use.
- Improper or excessive use; misuse.
- Cruel or inhumane treatment
- A rude expression intended to offend or hurt
- A corrupt practice or custom; an offense; a crime; a fault: as, the abuses of government.
- A wrongful using of an animal or chattel distrained, by the distrainer.
- Violation; rape.
- Vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling.
- A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault.
- Physical ill treatment; injury.
- Improper or excessive use
- Abuse, Invective, maltreatment, outrage; vituperation, contumely, scolding, reviling, aspersion, slander, obloquy. (See invective.) “ Abuse as compared with invective is more personal and coarse, being conveyed in harsh and unseemly terms, and dictated by angry feeling and bitter temper. Invective is more commonly aimed at character or conduct, and may be conveyed in writing and in refined language, and dictated by indignation against what is in itself blameworthy. It often, however, means public abuse under such restraints as are imposed by position and education.”
- Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse
- Cruel or harmful treatment or abuse; mistreatment.
- Cruel or inhumane treatment; ill usage; abuse.
- The act of maltreating, or the condition of being maltreated; ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
- Cruel or inhumane treatment
ABUSE vs MALTREATMENT: VERB
- Use wrongly or improperly or excessively
- Change the inherent purpose or function of something
- Treat badly
- Use foul or abusive language towards
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ABUSE vs MALTREATMENT: TRANSITIVE VERB
- 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; ; to make an excessive use of.
- To use improperly or excessively; misuse.
- To hurt or injure by maltreatment; ill-use.
- To assail with insulting or hurtful words; revile.
- To deceive or trick.
- To use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt.
- To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.
- To dishonor.
- To violate; to ravish.
- To deceive; to impose on.
- To force sexual activity on; rape or molest.
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ABUSE vs MALTREATMENT: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To maltreat, ill-use, injure. To revile, reproach, vilify, rate, berate, vituperate, rail at.
- Synonyms To Abuse, Misuse, misapply, misemploy, pervert, profane. Abuse and misuse are closely synonymous terms, but misuse conveys more particularly the idea of using inappropriately, abuse that of treating injuriously. In general, abuse is the stronger word.
- To violate; ravish; defile. To attack with contumelious language; revile. To deceive; impose on; mislead.
- To do wrong to; act injuriously toward; injure; disgrace; dishonor.
- To use ill; misuse; put to a wrong or bad use; divert from the proper use; misapply: as, to abuse rights or privileges; to abuse words.
- (idiom) (abuse oneself) To masturbate.
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ABUSE vs MALTREATMENT: RELATED WORDS
- Ill use, Ill usage, Ill treatment, Ill treat, Clapperclaw, Revilement, Shout, Blackguard, Contumely, Insult, Pervert, Maltreat, Mistreat, Misuse, Maltreatment
- Treatment, Slaughter, Negligence, Abusing, Abusive, Violence, Brutalisation, Abused, Abuses, Cruelty, Neglect, Mistreatment, Ill usage, Ill treatment, Abuse
ABUSE vs MALTREATMENT: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Victimization, Bullying, Abusive, Molestation, Neglect, Abusers, Shout, Blackguard, Contumely, Insult, Pervert, Maltreat, Mistreat, Misuse, Maltreatment
- Wrong, Bad, Battering, Ill, Beating, Treatment, Slaughter, Negligence, Abusing, Abusive, Violence, Brutalisation, Abused, Neglect, Abuse
ABUSE vs MALTREATMENT: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Focus is on the major forms of abuse: child, intimate partner, and elderly abuse.
- These are covered in the Child Abuse and Adult Abuse Policies.
- Painkiller abuse now matches abuse of illegal drugs.
- Abuse Is Abuse: The Influence of Type of Abuse, Victim Age, and Defendant Age on Juror Decision Making.
- Drug Abuse Warning Network and National Household Survey on Drug Abuse are initiated under the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention.
- If allegations of spousal abuse, child abuse, or child sexual abuse are proven false, then Tennessee judges will consider that evidence very seriously.
- Religious communities frequently protect abusers while denying and enabling abuse, creating conditions of possibility for abuse, allowing abuse to flourish.
- Can I sue him with economic abuse, physical abuse, and emotional abuse?
- If you or a friend is suffering from physical abuse, emotional abuse, psychological abuse or verbal abuse, this free service can help.
- Such abuse can include neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional or psychological abuse, abandonment, or financial abuse.
- The VOCA grant will be designated as tertiary child maltreatment prevention strategy to strengthen families, prevent outofhome placement, and prevent repeat maltreatment.
- Our findings suggest that although any report of maltreatment is undesirable, chronic maltreatment predicts worse outcomes across a number of domains.
- New Strengths: The Department has historically fallen below the national performance for Maltreatment in Foster Care and Recurrence of Maltreatment.
- The most frequent types of maltreatment investigated by these studies were sexual and physical maltreatment, usually both separately and together.
- These data do not represent true occurrence of maltreatment but, once again, reports of maltreatment known to service providers.
- Regression analyses investigated the effect of maltreatment on antisocial outcomes among four groups based on ADHD and maltreatment status.
- CDR process of maltreatment classification could translate well to a national model to better count maltreatment deaths.
- As with other forms of child maltreatment, the true prevalence of psychological maltreatment is unknown.
- Infants are at the greatest risk for all types of maltreatment, including fatal maltreatment.
- Questions regarding maltreatment or possible maltreatment of the child should be addressed.
ABUSE vs MALTREATMENT: QUESTIONS
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