Tra từ abuse - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a term of abuse (=a word that is offensive or deliberately rude)
▪ ‘Geek’ is used as a term of abuse.
abuse your position (=use your level or rank wrongly)
▪ He abused his position as a doctor.
abuse/misuse your authority (=use your authority in a bad way)
▪ The mayor was accused of abusing his authority and taking bribes.
alcohol abuse (=when someone drinks too much)
▪ alcohol abuse
an abuse of power (=a wrong or unfair use of power)
▪ This cover-up is a scandalous abuse of power.
child abuse (=treating children in a very bad way, especially sexually)
▪ He was arrested on suspicion of child abuse.
child abuse
domestic violence/abuse (=in a family, especially by a husband towards his wife)
▪ The organization supports women who are victims of domestic violence.
drug use/abuse (=taking drugs)
▪ She is being treated for drug abuse.
flagrant abuse/violation/breach etc
▪ flagrant violations of human rights
physical abuse/violence
▪ He had suffered physical abuse at the hands of his parents.
physically abuse sb
▪ Her father had physically abused her.
racial abuse (=insulting remarks based on someone's race)
▪ Their children had begun to face racial abuse on the streets and in school.
shout abuse/insults
▪ He was surrounded by a group of boys who shouted abuse at him.
solvent abuse
subject sb to an ordeal/abuse/harassment
▪ Barker subjected his victim to awful abuse.
substance abuse
tirade of abuse
▪ a tirade of abuse
torrent of abuse
▪ When I asked him to move, he unleashed a torrent of abuse.
verbal abuse (=cruel words)
▪ verbal abuse from other kids on the street
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
domestic
▪ Similarly, reporting of domestic abuse doubled in the London area between 1991-92.
▪ J.-hungry media with snappy sound bites and an attention-grabbing stance on domestic abuse.
▪ Many physicians have been trained to screen women for domestic abuse.
▪ Several residential neighborhoods have seen increases in robberies, burglaries, street violence and domestic abuse, the spokesmen said.
▪ His suspension was as lame as O. J. Simpson getting to do counseling over the telephone for domestic abuse.
▪ To confront domestic abuse is to confront the failure of the church.
elder
▪ The incidence of elder abuse is hard to quantify.
▪ So this week Community Care launches Elder abuse: break the silence - its major campaign for 1993.
▪ Intent could be a factor in defining elder abuse.
▪ Researching the prevalence of elder abuse is notoriously difficult, and information on the abuse of black elders is non-existent.
▪ Community Care believes elder abuse is a major problem.
emotional
▪ The victim of horrendous physical and emotional abuse, she was failed by all those who were bound up in her care.
▪ In one fell swoop, the authors have denied the deeply traumatizing consequences of extreme verbal and emotional abuse.
physical
▪ But he did refer to a spectator and an alleged verbal and physical abuse on Dooley and himself.
▪ She suffered terrible verbal as well as physical abuse for almost twenty-four years.
▪ Some women are afraid of physical violence or abuse from their partners, if they try to make changes in their relationship.
▪ The verbal and sometimes physical abuse that the guards have to take can be unbearable.
▪ A checklist of the types of physical abuse was developed to identify and categorise them.
▪ One is the difficulty of establishing a viable and nationally recognised definition of physical abuse.
▪ No one should be subject to physical or mental abuse, by another human being.
▪ This type of physical abuse is limited to the more extreme forms of witchcraft and satanism.
potential
▪ It helps management build a complete picture of various types of absence, and to identify potential abuses.
▪ The potential for abuse in such a system is immense.
▪ It may be necessary to report back to management any concerns of mismanagement or potential abuse.
▪ The potential for abuse and misuse of genome and cloning technology has always been a quiet threat.
▪ Given the potential for abuse, should drinks packaging carry a health warning on the label?
▪ When abuse or potential abuse is confirmed the conference may decide to place a child's name on the child protection register.
▪ The exchange has a continuing obligation to monitor markets and to identify and address potential abuses.
racial
▪ Some ethnic minority elders may find the continuing experience of hostility and racial abuse which they experience very hard to bear.
▪ Some critics say the prisons should hire more blacks to help curb racial abuse.
▪ People we spoke to in Ross said that people involved in racial abuse were in the minority.
▪ A lot of racial abuse and harassment goes on.
▪ Their children had begun to face racial abuse on the streets and in the schools.
▪ I can never condone coin-throwing or racial abuse.
serious
▪ So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse.
▪ The way in which Gingrich and his assistants went about funding the program suggests a serious form of abuse.
▪ Several years ago we wrote a paper in which we detailed a serious case of abuse of editorial power.
▪ Many prisoners who actually had been newsmen had suffered serious abuse.
▪ Today the situation isn't much better: it is estimated 250,000 elderly people are suffering serious abuse.
▪ In some ways that is a more serious abuse than any yet alleged against Clinton.
▪ But that is clearly a radical step, only likely to be taken when very serious abuse is involved.
▪ What of scientists themselves - whose help can often make or break successful protests against serious abuses of science.
solvent
▪ All adults need to learn about solvent abuse and to be aware that it could happen to their children.
▪ Our reporters uncovered a generation who have been sucked into a dark underworld of solvent abuse and hard drugs.
▪ Social services say they're do all they can to make their charges aware of the dangers of solvent abuse.
▪ So it's come to this; sitting in a hotel bar in New Orleans partaking in solvent abuse.
▪ All the indicators show that parental support helps young people come through solvent abuse quicker.
▪ Drugs include any intoxicant other than alcohol therefore even solvent abuse and driving may be covered by this offence.
▪ It's become the leading cause of solvent abuse deaths.
verbal
▪ Even though he never physically abused me, the verbal abuse was frightening.
▪ A solid majority shows strong correlation with disrespectful behavior, verbal abuse and physical aggression.
▪ Some 30 % of exclusions were for bullying, and a further 14.9 % for verbal abuse.
▪ In one fell swoop, the authors have denied the deeply traumatizing consequences of extreme verbal and emotional abuse.
▪ The effects of verbal abuse can be shattering.
▪ There were the violent outbursts, way out of proportion to any wrong done, and constant verbal abuse.
▪ This is enough, it would seem, to precipitate the verbal and physical abuse which follows.
▪ They had descended to their usual shouting of verbal abuse.
NOUN
alcohol
▪ The case of smoking and alcohol abuse illustrates the controversy.
▪ Helping young people cope with the impact of drug and alcohol abuse is the focus of the play Coming To.
▪ This may be because they generally suffer more serious problems, often complicated by personality difficulties and alcohol abuse.
▪ It makes me nervous to see how large a problem alcohol abuse has become in their country.
▪ Teenage depression, alcohol abuse, and even suicide are all attributed to the pressures of the exam system.
▪ There is no convincing evidence that advertising influences total consumption or has an impact on levels of alcohol abuse.
▪ Whilst the issue of alcohol abuse is quite properly a matter for concern, it should be seen in perspective.
child
▪ Treatment efforts in general are not very successful. Child abuse and neglect continue despite early, thoughtful, and often costly intervention.
▪ And just what is child abuse?
▪ There is no standardized definition of child abuse that has been developed by researchers and accepted by welfare professionals.
▪ The judge insisted that the trial was not about child abuse.
▪ Q: You mean you were a victim of child abuse?
▪ There is definitely a link between domestic violence and child abuse.
▪ It was a child's story about child abuse.
▪ Spousal abuse is much in the news, as much or more so as child abuse.
drug
▪ Is there a strong enough will to stamp out drug abuse?
▪ But there is a lot of alcoholism and drug abuse associated with manic-depressive illness.
▪ He says they've led to racial tension, crime and drug abuse.
▪ In facing the challenge of drug abuse, the media have never been less monolithic.
▪ Anthony Gould was said to be one of the most unpopular men in the prison because of a crusade against drug abuse.
▪ Shalala noted that parents should talk with their children about drug abuse directly.
▪ Ill health Drug abuse can lead to damage to main organs of the body, mental illness, malnutrition or death.
▪ The sportswear giants broke off their deal with the world sprint champion who's awaiting a four-year ban for drug abuse.
substance
▪ Controls would be set up at supermarket checkouts, and anyone buying too many cleaning compounds would be suspected of substance abuse.
▪ But there is another side to the substance abuse equation that may make it less amenable to interventions.
▪ Finally, the policy also aims to provide assistance to employees with other substance abuse problems.
▪ Maybe, I am thinking, they should specialize in substance abuse.
▪ In each case the primary diagnosis was substance abuse, and initial treatment was given accordingly.
▪ These guys should get into substance abuse.
▪ A questionnaire on patterns of substance abuse will be followed-up by in-depth interviews with pupils.
▪ Remember that substance abuse treatment must address queerness.
wife
▪ The results are clear to see: divorce, child and wife abuse, alcoholism and drug addiction.
▪ The problem of wife abuse is not one of feminism, secular humanism or a lack of headship in the home.
▪ None of this is to imply that Dobson is uncaring toward victims of wife abuse.
▪ The fact that Dobson periodically addresses the issue of wife abuse in his speaking and writing is commendable in itself.
▪ While media violence may exacerbate the problem of wife abuse, it does not cause it.
▪ A search for the causes of wife abuse leads back to the family itself.
VERB
hurl
▪ She heard the boys hurling abuse at her, shouting to her to stop, but she shut her ears to them.
▪ When I first met her she had been hurling abuse at her daughters-in-law who took no notice whatsoever.
report
▪ In these circumstances the public interest in encouraging people to report cases of child abuse has been held to outweigh other interests.
▪ This is a hot line established by state child welfare agencies for the reporting of child abuse.
▪ Why did they wait? ... Social Services are criticised for failing to report child abuse.
▪ Each state statute that mandates reporting of child abuse or neglect specifies the procedures reporters are required to follow.
▪ Should counselors violate privileged communication by reporting suspected cases of abuse or neglect?
▪ Other cities routinely reported police abuse.
▪ Under recently passed statutes, teachers now also have a duty to report child abuse and neglect.
scream
▪ Four other men and a 15-year-old youth were also held as the crowd continued to scream abuse.
▪ She thought Mrs Magendanz had seen the old coot staggering around the house and screaming abuse at her.
▪ I could scream abuse at him all day long; he wouldn't mind at all.
▪ As we entered the building a white woman leaning from a balcony screamed a stream of abuse.
shout
▪ In the presence of a large crowd in a public square the messengers shouted vulgar abuse at Vuk.
▪ Relatives of Peter Williams began shouting and hurling abuse after magistrates refused to grant bail.
▪ We'd slowly creep up on them then shout abuse and kick sand all over them.
suffer
▪ This of course has been well documented in the tragic cases of children suffering from abuse.
▪ Instead, I suffered the slings and abuses of public health.
▪ Even if they survive those patients undergoing suffocation are suffering unacceptable and repeated abuse.
▪ Many prisoners who actually had been newsmen had suffered serious abuse.
▪ Today the situation isn't much better: it is estimated 250,000 elderly people are suffering serious abuse.
▪ The siblings claim they suffered a lifetime of abuse from their parents.
▪ Educated people had become a despised group, just as during the Cultural Revolution, when they suffered verbal and physical abuse.
▪ Even after all these years I still suffer from the mental abuse.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hail of criticism/abuse etc
▪ Oliver Stone, operating under a hail of criticism, was finishing a revisionist movie about the Kennedy assassination.
elder abuse
▪ Community Care believes elder abuse is a major problem.
▪ In the overall case, the four-year statute of limitations on alleged fraud, theft and financial elder abuse expires in February.
▪ Intent could be a factor in defining elder abuse.
▪ Report on local authority guidelines on elder abuse.
▪ Researching the prevalence of elder abuse is notoriously difficult, and information on the abuse of black elders is non-existent.
▪ The incidence of elder abuse is hard to quantify.
hurl abuse/insults/accusations etc (at sb)
▪ She heard the boys hurling abuse at her, shouting to her to stop, but she shut her ears to them.
▪ There is not much to be achieved by hurling insults.
▪ When I first met her she had been hurling abuse at her daughters-in-law who took no notice whatsoever.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a case of child abuse at a daycare center
▪ a victim of sexual abuse
▪ An angry mob screamed abuse and hurled missiles during clashes with police yesterday.
▪ By the late 1970s, the word "hippie" had become a term of abuse.
▪ Demonstrators hurled abuse at councillors as they entered the council building in Glasgow.
▪ Doctors believed that there was no evidence of abuse, despite the woman's claims.
▪ Leaning out of the window, he let loose a stream of abuse.
▪ People were shouting abuse at the Prime Minister as he sped away in a large car.
▪ the abuse of the elderly
▪ There has been an increase in the number of cases of child abuse.
▪ This is an obscene abuse of political power.
▪ Worrell lost his job as coach because of his verbal abuse of players.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Currently the best-known cases seeking money damages for failure to report child abuse and neglect have been filed against physicians and hospitals.
▪ Dietz could not say whether Erik is lying about alleged abuse by his father.
▪ Here participants were given a chance to discuss sexuality, health, relationships, self-esteem and abuse.
▪ In considering the problem of child abuse, we all have the same starting point.
▪ Instead of sighs and accidents there was pointed and deliberate abuse.
▪ The power to stop a prosecution arises only when it is an abuse of the process of the court.
▪ Yet everyone knew of the abuses which had grown, flourished and even became institutionalized in this laissezfaire prison system.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
physically
▪ Even though he never physically abused me, the verbal abuse was frightening.
▪ He claimed that both parents psychologically and physically abused him.
▪ In 1986, a father of fifteen children then living in South Ronaldsay was jailed for physically abusing them.
▪ Boyle cited a recent example of an elderly woman who was being physically abused.
▪ He talked of his harsh, unsympathetic upbringing in which his often drunken father physically abused his wife and children.
▪ BWhile not physically abused, Tamika, like most children of addicts, is emotionally starved.
▪ My stepfather was strict and didn't let us have friends in the house; he physically abused me but not sexually.
▪ A constellation of social difficulties has also been found to characterise parents who severely physically abuse their children.
racially
▪ Lazio's Sinisa Mihailovic was banned for two matches for racially abusing Patrick Vieira.
▪ They said both men had been racially abused before they died.
▪ Mr Boyle told the jury that he had never racially abused or harassed Errol.
sexually
▪ Counselling &038; Therapy with women who have been sexually abused as children on Feb 17.
▪ She noted that exceptions usually made are for children under the age of 10 who have been sexually abused.
▪ This is also possible in children who have been sexually abused.
▪ So are five former high-school students or others whom Hudson admitted sexually abusing or trying to abuse when he was a coach.
▪ Abused A 13-year-old boy, the son of a Hollywood dentist, has alleged the 34-year-old multi-millionaire sexually abused him.
▪ Potentially explosive subtext -- Annie was sexually abused as a child -- is pretty much left in the background.
▪ They said parents sexually abused their children as part of a satanic ritual, and that these practices were widespread.
▪ And sexually abused and physically battered kids run away from home.
verbally
▪ Less so is a creeping and curious menace of players being verbally abused.
▪ The rest are elbows delivered, punches thrown, verbally abusing referees, skipping All-Star media day, obscene gestures, tantrum-throwing.
▪ Referee Alf Buksh is understood to have complained in his match report of being verbally abused by officials from both teams.
▪ Afterward, the plaintiffs asked for a court order prohibiting Lawrence from verbally abusing them.
▪ The last time I had it, a woman reporter was humiliated and verbally abused in a National Football League locker room.
▪ Rosemary was frequently absent or tardy and alternated between verbally abusing her teachers and flat-out ignoring them.
NOUN
alcohol
▪ Clearly many issues such as drug and alcohol abuse, prostitution, and even poverty are socially constructed problems.
authority
▪ As we get older, we may be abused by other authority figures - teachers, doctors, bosses.
▪ Local magistrates also abused their authority in order to influence voters.
▪ Old mouth McEnroe, who can't stop himself from foully abusing anyone in authority with whom he disagrees.
child
▪ Social workers have a key role to play when some one suspects that a child is being abused.
▪ School officials said that prior to Thanksgiving there were no indications to teachers or other educators that the children were being abused.
▪ How do social workers go about investigating these complaints, and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused?
▪ Outside of behaviors falling under the child abuse and neglect laws, there were virtually none.
▪ Paying to view children being abused is causing the demand.
▪ Also patrons of child abuse vic-tims.
▪ We would not wish to outlaw parenthood on the grounds that some children are abused, even murdered, in the home.
▪ Roughly half of those women abused as children had been abused in the past year.
drug
▪ Clearly many issues such as drug and alcohol abuse, prostitution, and even poverty are socially constructed problems.
▪ Drinking and drug abuse also lower immunity and tend to increase risky behaviors.
position
▪ In fact, around one-half of the cases can be identified solely from the headlines as persons abusing their positions of trust.
▪ During his trial much was made of the way he had abused his position as a doctor.
▪ It exists in every civilised society so that Governments, the rich and the powerful can not abuse their position.
▪ Mostly he did not abuse this position, for he is a cautious man.
▪ The Labour Party has not yet decided how it can stop a single-chamber Parliament from abusing its position.
▪ At least, she hoped it was dignity, because she tried not to abuse her position of power.
▪ But what makes Courtney especially dangerous is not that he abused his position as a doctor.
▪ Predatory behaviour was discussed above, in the context of a firm abusing a dominant position.
power
▪ Nor do I deny that they sometimes abuse their power and are unfair to individuals.
▪ Most writers abuse their power by exploiting their Sources.
▪ Moscow is a grey city; comfort there is always tied to power, and power too frequently to abuse of power.
▪ He now faces charges of having abused his power while in office.
▪ At least, she hoped it was dignity, because she tried not to abuse her position of power.
▪ I always tried to not abuse that power.
▪ Friends of the victims demonstrated on the streets, calling for action against the culprits, who had abused their power.
▪ The real Nixon was not a benign statesman but a ruthless, corrupt president who abused power on a spectacular scale.
privilege
▪ Those privy to sensitive information about mergers or acquisitions of companies worth millions or billions of pounds must not abuse that privilege.
▪ The Committee criticized Gingrich for abusing mailing privileges and for failing to report a real estate deal.
substance
▪ Estimates of substance abuse among the population range from 5 percent to 37 percent.
system
▪ It's encouraging them all to bloody well abuse the system so it is.
▪ Critics say professional athletes have been abusing the generous California system by filing claims from out of state.
▪ It's to stop people abusing the system.
▪ Certainly, there are those among them who abuse the system.
▪ They were open to abuse, and their system of controls did not always work.
▪ They believed their children were being abused by the system set up to protect them.
trust
▪ In fact, around one-half of the cases can be identified solely from the headlines as persons abusing their positions of trust.
▪ But some doctors have a history of abusing that trust for profit, prescribing unnecessary and ineffective diet regimes to all comers.
▪ Nevertheless, the whole basis of survey work is one of trust and relatively few interviewers abuse this trust.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hail of criticism/abuse etc
▪ Oliver Stone, operating under a hail of criticism, was finishing a revisionist movie about the Kennedy assassination.
elder abuse
▪ Community Care believes elder abuse is a major problem.
▪ In the overall case, the four-year statute of limitations on alleged fraud, theft and financial elder abuse expires in February.
▪ Intent could be a factor in defining elder abuse.
▪ Report on local authority guidelines on elder abuse.
▪ Researching the prevalence of elder abuse is notoriously difficult, and information on the abuse of black elders is non-existent.
▪ The incidence of elder abuse is hard to quantify.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ athletes abusing their bodies with steroids
▪ Erica runs a hostel for women who have been abused by their husbands.
▪ Erik testified he was sexually abused by his father since the age of 6.
▪ Local politicians abused their privileges to make themselves rich.
▪ Many of the kids are abusing drugs.
▪ Most people on welfare do not abuse the system.
▪ My father abused us for years.
▪ people who abuse the welfare system
▪ She was sexually abused as a child.
▪ Some lawyers seem to enjoy abusing witnesses.
▪ Some nursing home patients were neglected or abused.
▪ The men were getting drunk on cheap beer and some had started abusing passers-by.
▪ The player was reported to the tournament director for verbally abusing match officials.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As we get older, we may be abused by other authority figures - teachers, doctors, bosses.
▪ Eleanor just abused him thoroughly, which wasn't very womanly in his opinion.
▪ He said du Pont frequently carried a. 38-caliber pistol on the estate and abused cocaine and alcohol.
▪ I ended up in Kibble List D. I just abused the teachers.
▪ It exists in every civilised society so that Governments, the rich and the powerful can not abuse their position.
▪ Time allowed 00:21 Read in studio A man who sexually abused a schoolgirl has been given probation.
▪ Unfortunately no management principle discussed in this book is more abused.

abuse

I. a‧buse¹ S2 W3 /əˈbjuːs/ noun
1. [PLURAL, UNCOUNTABLE]
cruel or violent treatment of someone:
　 ▪ several cases of child abuse
physical/sexual/racial abuse
　 ▪ Many children suffer racial abuse at school.
　 ▪ An independent committee will look into alleged human rights abuses.

2. [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]
the use of something in a way that it should not be used SYN misuse
abuse of
　 ▪ government officials’ abuse of power
　 ▪ A self-monitoring tax system is clearly open to abuse (=able to be used wrongly).
alcohol/drug abuse (=the practice of drinking too much or taking illegal drugs) ⇨ solvent abuse

3. [UNCOUNTABLE]
rude or offensive things that someone says when they are angry:
　 ▪ vandalism and verbal abuse directed at old people
a torrent/stream of abuse (=a series of rude or angry words)
shout/hurl/scream abuse at somebody
　 ▪ The other driver started hurling abuse at me. ⇨ a term of abuse at term¹(3)

II. a‧buse² /əˈbjuːz/ verb [TRANSITIVE]
[date : 1400-1500; Language : French; Origin : abuser, from Latin abusus, past participle of abuti, from ab- 'away' + uti 'to use']
1. to treat someone in a cruel and violent way, often sexually
sexually/physically abused
　 ▪ She was sexually abused as a child.

2. to deliberately use something for the wrong purpose or for your own advantage:
　 ▪ Williams abused his position as Mayor to give jobs to his friends.
　 ▪ Morris abused the trust the firm had shown in him.
　 ▪ people who abuse the system
abuse alcohol/drugs
　 ▪ The proportion of drinkers who abuse alcohol is actually quite small.

3. to say rude or offensive things to someone SYN insult:
　 ▪ Many soldiers in Belfast are verbally abused.
　 ▪ He came to the help of another driver who was being racially abused by three white passengers.

4. to treat something so badly that you start to destroy it:
　 ▪ James abused his body for years with heroin and cocaine.

—abuser noun [COUNTABLE]