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abuse

/əˈbjuːz/

US pronunciation
American sound/əˈbjuːz/
əˈbjuːz
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
2nd syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

ə - ˈbjuːz -> abuse

Myanmar meaning

(v) အလွဲသုံးစားပြုသည်။ စော်ကားသည်။ နှိပ်စက်ညှဉ်းပန်းသည်။ မတရား ကျင့်သည်။ မဟားတရားပြုသည်။ ဆရေးတိုင်းထွာသည်။ (n) တလွဲသုံးခြင်း။ မတရားသုံးခြင်း။ (အာဏာ၊ အခွင့်အရေး) အလွဲသုံးစား ပြုခြင်း။ မတော်မတရားပြု ခြင်း။ ဆရေးခြင်း။ မတော်အရော် အကြမ်းပတမ်း ကိုင်တွယ်အသုံးပြုခြင်း။

Full entry

abuse / ǝ'bju:z / v

၁။ (က) အလွဲသုံးစားပြုသည်။ abusing drugs/alcohol. (ခ) စော်ကားသည်။ အလွဲသုံးစားပြုသည်။ abuse sb's hospitality ❍ abuse one's authority/the confidence placed in one.
၂။ (က) နှိပ်စက်ညှဉ်းပန်းသည်။ a hostel for abused and battered women. (ခ) မတရား ကျင့်သည်။ မဟားတရားပြုသည်။ viciously beaten and sexually abused ❍ a man who abused his own daughter.
၃။ ဆဲရေးတိုင်းထွာသည်။ Journalists have been threatened and abused.
/ ǝ'bju:s / n
၁။ (က) [U,C] တလွဲသုံးခြင်း။ မတရားသုံးခြင်း။ drug/slovent abuse ❍ widespread abuse of computer facilities. (ခ) [U, sing] (အာဏာ၊ အခွင့်အရေး) အလွဲသုံးစား ပြုခြင်း။ The new system of paying cash bonuses is open to a buse. ❍ an abuse of trust/privilege/authority. (ဂ) [C] မတော်မတရားပြုခြင်း။ မတရားဖိနှိပ်ခြင်း။ put a stop to political abuse ❍ abuses of human rights.
၂။ [U,C] မဟားတရားပြုခြင်း။ နှိပ်စက်ခြင်း။ child sex abuse ❍ physical abuse of horses.
၃။ [U] ဆဲရေးခြင်း။ verbal abuse ❍ hurl (a stream/torrent of) abuse at sb ❍ The word ‘bastard’ is often used as a term of abuse.
၄။ မတော်တရော် အကြမ်းပတမ်း ကိုင်တွယ်အသုံးပြုခြင်း။ This toy has been subjected to a lot of abuse.
❏ abuser n အလွဲသုံးစားပြုသူ (သို့) မတော်မတရားပြုသူ။ a drug abuser ❍ a child abuser.

More examples
  • The regime had been responsible for serious human rights abuses.
  • [abuse of] : Physical abuse and neglect of children is too common.
  • Several female students have made allegations of abuse against him.
  • Price-fixing agreements and other abuses by large corporations
  • [abuse of power/privilege/position] : This is clearly an abuse of power.
  • [open to abuse] : All polling methods are potentially open to abuse.
  • Alcohol/drug/substance abuse
  • [shout/scream/hurl abuse] : Blake was alleged to have hurled racist abuse at a student.
Synonyms
mistreatment, cruelty, ill-treatment, violence, maltreatment, neglect, exploitation, backbite, bad-mouth, bad-mouthing, bang up, bash, batter, be violent toward, beat up, belittle, berate, blame, blow off, bung up, call names, calumniate, cap, castigate, castigation, censure, corrupt, corruption, crime, curse, curses, cuss out, cut down, cut to the quick, cut up, damage, debasement, decry, defamation, defame, defile, defilement, delinquency, deprave, derision, derogate, desecrate, desecration, discount, dissipate, do a number on, do an injustice to, dump on, exhaust, exploit, fault, foul language, give a black eye, harm, hose, hosing, hurl abuse, hurl brickbat, hurt, ill-treat, impair, impairment, impose on, injure, injuring, injury, injustice, insult, insults, invective, kicking around, knifing, knock, libel, malevolence, maltreat, manhandling, manipulate, manipulation, mar, mess up, minimize, misapplication, misconduct, misdeed, misemploy, mishandle, mishandling, mismanage, mistreat, misuse, molest, nag, name-calling, obloquy, offend, offense, oppress, opprobrium, overburden, overtax, overwork, persecute, perversion, physical hurting, pick on, pollute, pollution, prostitute, prostitution, pushing around, put down, put-down, quinine, rag on, reproach, revile, revilement, ride, rip up, rough up, roughhouse, ruin, run down, scold, scolding, shake up, shout abuse, shout insults, signify, signifying, sin, slam, slander, slap, sling mud, smear, sound, spoil, squander, swear, swear at, swearing, taint, take advantage, taking advantage, tear apart, tirade, total, trash, treat badly, upbraid, upbraiding, use, use foul language
Antonyms
acclaim, acclamation, adulate, adulation, advantage, aid, approval, approve, assist, benefit, blessing, care for, cherish, clean, commend, commendation, compliment, defend, esteem, exalt, exaltation, favor, flatter, flattery, good, good deed, goodness, grow, help, hoard, honor, improve, kindness, laud, look after, obedience, plaudit, please, pleasure, praise, preservation, preserve, prize, protect, purify, respect, revere, sanctify, save, treasure, treat well
Cross references
mistreatmentcrueltyill-treatmentviolencemaltreatmentneglectexploitationbackbitebad-mouthbad-mouthingbang upbashbatterbe violent towardbeat upbelittleberateblameblow offbung upcall namescalumniatecapcastigatecastigationcensurecorruptcorruption
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