Abuse is valid Scrabble Word

Is abuse a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is abuse valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for ABUSE in dictionary:

VERB:

to revile or swear at; to use wrongly
make excessive and habitual use of (alcohol or drugs, especially illegal ones)
assault (someone, especially a woman or child) sexually
masturbate.
use or treat in such a way as to cause damage or harm
use (something) to bad effect or for a bad purpose; misuse
treat with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly
speak to (someone) in an insulting and offensive way
unjust or corrupt practice
violent treatment involving sexual assault, especially on a regular basis

the improper use of something
cruel and violent treatment of a person or animal
insulting and offensive language
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.
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.
To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.
To dishonor.
To violate; to ravish.
To deceive; to impose on.
Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language.
Physical ill treatment; injury.
A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service.
Vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling.
Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child.
treat badly
change the inherent purpose or function of something
use foul or abusive language towards
use wrongly or improperly or excessively
use wrongly

NOUN:

cruel or inhumane treatment
a rude expression intended to offend or hurt
improper or excessive use
prolonged ill-treatment

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to use wrongly or improperly

Words related to ABUSE

abusable12 abused9 abuser8 abusers9 abuses8 abusing10

Words that contain ABUSE

abused9 abuser8 abuses8 abusers9 disabuse11 unabused11 antiabuse11 databuses12 disabused13 disabuses12 cottabuses14 syllabuses15

How to use ABUSE in a sentence

He is now at issue with the whole Catholic regime, and the whole Catholic world abuse him.
It being known that such scrutiny was made in my case, it may form a new and strong barrier against the abuse of the public confidence in future.
Thorpe Satchville Tournaments, abuse of Tournaments, management of value of Training Tulloch, Miss B.
They have done everything to deprive the King of his power, they have hurled abuse at the throne, at the whole Old Order of things.
She looked at me with ineffable scorn, and continued to pour forth a torrent of abuse and reproach.
That is one of the words that needs redeeming from abuse.
Augustine, though he condemned the practice as an abuse of the Divine Word, yet preferred that men should have recourse to the Gospels rather than to heathen works.
We stand in a situation very honorable to ourselves and very useful to our country, if we do not abuse or abandon the trust that is placed in us.
In spite of our chronic abuse of human nature it is, after all, a kindly nature, and rejoices in good more than in evil.
In the old days this was frequently so, but now, owing to many legal actions by Public Health Authorities, this abuse has been stamped out.

From one end of Dublin to the other she was notorious for her powers of abuse, and even in the provinces Mrs.
If one of these suffers an abuse, the detriment affects the mass.
Then Paul understood all his growls and abuse and was sincerely sorry.
Arrows and abuse flew between those above and those below.
She seems to have soon made up her mind to make the best of her altered circumstances, and thus show her gratitude to those who had so readily overlooked her past abuse of them.
Van Buren, you must stop, for were you a hundred times a woman, I would not listen to one word of abuse against my brother Andy.
It called into existence a champion of every inveterate abuse that weighed on the resources of the country.
Most of the San Francisco papers heaped abuse upon the Prosecution, its attorneys and its judges.
The captains wail over the trap and abuse him for getting them into it.
In vain you tell me that artificial government is good, but that I fall out only with the abuse.
Another evil of slavery that I felt severely about this time, was the tyranny and abuse of the overseers.
A preamble could explain that the object was to use the interest, not abuse the capital of wild life.
We might as well abuse the Jews in America, and then take up a collection to send them to England or Australia.
Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man.
He never ceased his abuse of Burr, whose election as senator angered him.
His first impulse is to rejoice in his freedom and share it with others, not to abuse the fetters he has cut away.
How long his special institutions lasted we do not know, but no one acquainted with India can help feeling that his system of inspection was liable to grave abuse.
His early years were made miserable by ill-treatment and abuse.

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