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Definition of Abused
1. Adjective. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs. "An abused substance"
2. Adjective. Subjected to cruel treatment. "An abused wife"
Definition of Abused
1. Verb. (past of abuse) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abused
1. abuse [v] - See also: abuse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abused
Literary usage of Abused
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. When the Victim Is a Child by Debra Whitcomb (1992)
"Early attempts to describe a "sexually abused child syndrome" were quickly
discarded as lacking foundation in empirical research. ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"The alleged newly discovered evidence is both impeaching and cumulative, and
under the above rulings this court cannot say that the trial judge abused his ..."
3. Juvenile Offenders & Victims: A National Report by Howard N. Snyder (1995)
"Arrest records study also finds abused and neglected children more likely to ...
Researchers found that 26% of abused or neglected children eventually had a ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"... when the light is sufficiently strengthened, the organism may make for it with
the utmost directness. The earthworm, a much used and abused ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"emperor was disposed to believe that he had abused his ecclesiastical and civil
power to persecute those odious sectaries ; that he had sacrilegiously ..."
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