Abuses is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABUSES in dictionary:

VERB:
• ABUSE, 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to use wrongly or improperly

Words related to ABUSES

abuse7 abused9 abusing10

Words that contain ABUSES

databuses12 disabuses12 cottabuses14 syllabuses15

How to use ABUSES in a sentence

• While Erasmus of Rotterdam, without actually pronouncing himself a disciple of Lutheranism, effected more than all its advocates to throw the abuses of Catholicism into discredit.
• Wyclif was the representative of the schools when he attacked the abuses of the Church.
• Are we great? it is but to lead us into abuses that will justify our fall.
• This tone of impartiality and indifference, however, did not at all suit those who profited or existed by abuses, who breathed the very air of corruption.
• If thee had, thee would not talk of the abuses of Slavery, when the system is an abuse itself.
• Of the other abuses that sprang from this source many were accused at a later time, but few convicted.
• The abuses of that ward were still fresh in my mind, and the memory of distressing scenes was kept vivid by reports reaching me from friends who were still confined there.
• Abuses have for their defenders interests, influence, fortune, and some antiquated prejudices which time seems to have respected.
• The abuses perpetrated against the West Indian negro called loudly for Governmental interference.
• The feeble government of Edward established these abuses.
• Old abuses which have once struck a deep root in any institution, die slowly.
• The former is adapted to the existing abuses, the latter goes to those possible, as well as to those existing.
• The country we love and the Government which has bestowed upon us innumerable blessings, notwithstanding abuses, call upon us for help in the hour of need.
• All the abuses of British military official routine prevailed, and the accounts which arrived in England excited, as tidings from India had so often done, much popular discontent.
• The goal held up as justification of such abuses was the creation of a new kind of society that would ensure not only freedom from want but fulfilment for the human spirit.
• But, with a higher and more intelligent class of household servants, doubtless these abuses would disappear.
• What was needed in many directions, both in politics and in industry, was merely negative action by the government, the repeal of the old laws, the overthrow of old abuses.
• Kanag goes to secure it, and while away his mother visits his wife and abuses her.
• The root cause is to be found in those agrarian abuses whose long neglect by the Irish Parliament constituted the strongest justification for Reform.
• Hence, the evils of slavery have their origin in its abuses.
• They will all point to its abuses, or in other words, to the evils growing out of its abuses.
• Think of the injustice, of the abuses inseparable from such an enterprise.
• He is not the man who draws our attention to abuses which can be abolished by determined effort.

Similar words containing ABUSE without suffix s

abuse7 abused9 abuser8 abusers9 disabuse11 unabused11 antiabuse11 databuses12 disabused13 disabuses12 cottabuses14 syllabuses15

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