Abuse

Definition

abuse / ǝ'bju:z / v ၁။ (က) အလြဲသံုးစားျပဳသည္။ abusing drugs/alcohol. (ခ) ေစာ္ကားသည္။ အလြဲသံုးစားျပဳသည္။ abuse sb's hospitality ❍ abuse one's authority/the confidence placed in one. ၂။ (က) ႏိွပ္စက္ညႇဥ္းပန္းသည္။ a hostel for abused and battered women. (ခ) မတရား က်င့္သည္။ မဟားတရားျပဳသည္။ viciously beaten and sexually abused ❍ a man who abused his own daughter. ၃။ ဆဲေရးတိုင္းထြာသည္။ Journalists have been threatened and abused. / ǝ'bju:s / n ၁။ (က) [U,C] တလြဲသံုးျခင္း။ မတရားသံုးျခင္း။ drug/slovent abuse ❍ widespread abuse of computer facilities. (ခ) [U, sing] (အာဏာ၊ အခြင့္အေရး) အလြဲသံုးစား ျပဳျခင္း။ The new system of paying cash bonuses is open to a buse. ❍ an abuse of trust/privilege/authority. (ဂ) [C] မေတာ္မတရားျပဳျခင္း။ မတရားဖိႏိွပ္ျခင္း။ put a stop to political abuse ❍ abuses of human rights. ၂။ [U,C] မဟားတရားျပဳျခင္း။ ႏိွပ္စက္ျခင္း။ child sex abuse ❍ physical abuse of horses. ၃။ [U] ဆဲေရးျခင္း။ verbal abuse ❍ hurl (a stream/torrent of) abuse at sb ❍ The word ‘bastard’ is often used as a term of abuse. ၄။ မေတာ္တေရာ္ အၾကမ္းပတမ္း ကိုင္တြယ္အသံုးျပဳျခင္း။ This toy has been subjected to a lot of abuse. ❏ abuser n အလြဲသံုးစားျပဳသူ (သို႔) မေတာ္မတရားျပဳသူ။ a drug abuser ❍ a child abuser.

Examples

1. The regime had been responsible for serious human rights abuses.
2. [abuse of] : Physical abuse and neglect of children is too common.
3. Several female students have made allegations of abuse against him.
4. Price-fixing agreements and other abuses by large corporations
5. [abuse of power/privilege/position] : This is clearly an abuse of power.
6. [open to abuse] : All polling methods are potentially open to abuse.
7. Alcohol/drug/substance abuse
8. [shout/scream/hurl abuse] : Blake was alleged to have hurled racist abuse at a student.