abuse
滥用,虐待,辱骂,虐待行为
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a·bused, a·bus·ing.
- : to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
- : to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way: to abuse a horse; to abuse one's eyesight.
- : to speak insultingly, harshly, and unjustly to or about; revile; malign.
- : to commit sexual assault upon.
- : Obsolete. to deceive or mislead.
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- : wrong or improper use; misuse: the abuse of privileges.
- : harshly or coarsely insulting language: The officer heaped abuse on his men.
- : bad or improper treatment; maltreatment: The child was subjected to cruel abuse.
- : a corrupt or improper practice or custom: the abuses of a totalitarian regime.
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When it paused the service earlier this year, the company said it was investigating reports of abuse, especially from malware groups.
Regular testing can help the department identify officers with substance abuse issues as well.
She said the lead agency into the woman’s allegations is now the Justice Department’s Inspector General, which oversees accusations of civil rights abuses.
What I do know from the research that’s out there on abuse and abusers is that there’s a range of, I’d say of levels of denial that they are in … but I haven’t done any interviews.
In 2018, for example, Facebook was slow to act on misinformation spreading in Myanmar that ultimately led to human rights abuses.
These were cops who had worked the protests and suffered the accompanying verbal taunts and abuse.
You get these high-profile people that go into prison, and the staff abuse their authority.
When they get someone high profile, like the governor [Bob McDonnell] or like Teresa, they will abuse their positions.
Perhaps one of the most egregious examples is the abuse of civil asset forfeiture laws.
It needs to be said: bigotry in the name of religion is still bigotry; child abuse wrapped in a Bible verse is still child abuse.
Quaint old Burton in his "Anatomy of Melancholy," recognizes the virtues of the plant while he anathematizes its .