The untold meanings............
Main Entry: abuse
Part of Speech: verb 2
Definition: misuse
Synonyms: dissipate, exhaust, misemploy, mishandle, misuse, overburden, overtax, overwork, prostitute, spoil, squander, taint, waste
Main Entry: abuse
Part of Speech: noun 1
Definition: exploitation
Synonyms: corruption, crime, debasement, delinquency, desecration, exploitation, fault, injustice, misapplication, misconduct, misdeed, mishandling, mismanagement, misuse, offense, perversion, prostitution, sin, wrong, wrongdoing
Main Entry: abuse
Part of Speech: verb 4
Definition: exploit
Synonyms: exploit, impose on, use, wrong
a·buse ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-byz)
tr.v. a·bused, a·bus·ing, a·bus·es
To use wrongly or improperly; misuse: abuse alcohol; abuse a privilege. abuse bandwidth
To hurt or injure by maltreatment; ill-use bandwidth.
To force sexual activity on; rape or molest.
To assail with contemptuous, coarse, or insulting words; revile.
Obsolete. To deceive or trick.
n. (-bys)
Improper use or handling; misuse: abuse of authority; drug abuse.
Physical maltreatment: spousal abuse. bandwidth abuse
Sexual abuse.
An unjust or wrongful practice: a government that commits abuses against its citizens. A communications company that commits abuses against its patrons
Idiom:
abuse oneself Vulgar
To masturbate.
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[Middle English abusen, from Old French abuser, from abus, improper use, from Latin absus, past participle of abt, to misuse : ab-, away; see ab-1 + t, to use.]
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a·buser n.
Synonyms: abuse, misuse, mistreat, ill-treat, maltreat
These verbs mean to treat wrongfully or harmfully. Abuse applies to injurious or improper treatment: “We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us” (Aldo Leopold). Misuse stresses incorrect or unknowledgeable handling: “How often misused words generate misleading thoughts” (Herbert Spencer). Mistreat, ill-treat, and maltreat all share the sense of inflicting injury, often intentionally: “I had seen many more patients die from being mistreated for consumption than from consumption itself” (Earl of Lytton). The army had orders not to ill-treat the prisoners. “When we misuse [a language other than our native language], we are in fact trying to reduce its element of foreignness. We let ourselves maltreat it as though it naturally belonged to us” (Manchester Guardian Weekly).
"We abuse Bandwidth that we have paid for...and Misuse it to download things we can not completely justify downloading, whilst the rest of the Bandwidth users are left with throttled speeds"
Main Entry: abuse
Part of Speech: verb 2
Definition: misuse
Synonyms: dissipate, exhaust, misemploy, mishandle, misuse, overburden, overtax, overwork, prostitute, spoil, squander, taint, waste
Main Entry: abuse
Part of Speech: noun 1
Definition: exploitation
Synonyms: corruption, crime, debasement, delinquency, desecration, exploitation, fault, injustice, misapplication, misconduct, misdeed, mishandling, mismanagement, misuse, offense, perversion, prostitution, sin, wrong, wrongdoing
Main Entry: abuse
Part of Speech: verb 4
Definition: exploit
Synonyms: exploit, impose on, use, wrong
a·buse ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-byz)
tr.v. a·bused, a·bus·ing, a·bus·es
To use wrongly or improperly; misuse: abuse alcohol; abuse a privilege. abuse bandwidth
To hurt or injure by maltreatment; ill-use bandwidth.
To force sexual activity on; rape or molest.
To assail with contemptuous, coarse, or insulting words; revile.
Obsolete. To deceive or trick.
n. (-bys)
Improper use or handling; misuse: abuse of authority; drug abuse.
Physical maltreatment: spousal abuse. bandwidth abuse
Sexual abuse.
An unjust or wrongful practice: a government that commits abuses against its citizens. A communications company that commits abuses against its patrons
Idiom:
abuse oneself Vulgar
To masturbate.
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[Middle English abusen, from Old French abuser, from abus, improper use, from Latin absus, past participle of abt, to misuse : ab-, away; see ab-1 + t, to use.]
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a·buser n.
Synonyms: abuse, misuse, mistreat, ill-treat, maltreat
These verbs mean to treat wrongfully or harmfully. Abuse applies to injurious or improper treatment: “We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us” (Aldo Leopold). Misuse stresses incorrect or unknowledgeable handling: “How often misused words generate misleading thoughts” (Herbert Spencer). Mistreat, ill-treat, and maltreat all share the sense of inflicting injury, often intentionally: “I had seen many more patients die from being mistreated for consumption than from consumption itself” (Earl of Lytton). The army had orders not to ill-treat the prisoners. “When we misuse [a language other than our native language], we are in fact trying to reduce its element of foreignness. We let ourselves maltreat it as though it naturally belonged to us” (Manchester Guardian Weekly).
"We abuse Bandwidth that we have paid for...and Misuse it to download things we can not completely justify downloading, whilst the rest of the Bandwidth users are left with throttled speeds"