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abused

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //əˈbjuːzd//

Having been a victim of some form of abuse, most commonly child abuse or domestic violence.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of abusesimple past and past participle of abuse

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:abused.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having been a victim of some form of abuse, most commonly child abuse or domestic violence.

  2. 2

    Overused; used profligately or in excess.

  3. 3

    obsoleteDeluded, deceived.

    That be so farre abusyd They cannot be excusyd By reason nor by law; […]

Forms

comparative
more abused
superlative
most abused
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).