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Synonyms for misuse
Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : noun mis-yoos; verb mis-yooz |
Phonetic Transcription : noun mɪsˈyus; verb mɪsˈyuz |
Top 10 synonyms for misuse
- abusage
- barbarism
- blow
- brutalize
- catachresis
- cruel treatment
- cut up
- desecrate
- desecration
- dissipate
- dissipation
- go through
- handle roughly
- ill-treat
- ill-treatment
- injury
- malapropism
- maltreat
- maul
- mess up
- misapplication
- misapply
- misemploy
- misemployment
- misusage
- molest
- outrage
- perversion
- profanation
- profane
- prostitute
- rough handling
- run through
- shake up
- solecism
- squander
- squandering
- waste
- wrong
Définition of misuse
Origin :- late 14c., "to use improperly;" see mis- (1) + use (v.). Meaning "to subject to ill-treatment" is attested from 1530s. Related: Misused; misusing.
- noun abuse; wrong application
- verb abuse; apply wrongly
- Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort.
- Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
- We found they knew, alas, too much about the misuse of everything growing in the field!
- Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
- They were provided thee; all that thou hast created is misuse!
- Extract from : « The Golden Fountain » by Lilian Staveley
- In fine, we owe the success of this trick to the misuse of fine emotions.
- Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1920 » by Various
- And the only way of learning how to use properly a thing is through its misuse.
- Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore
- He did not connect the fear at all with his misuse of cocaine.
- Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
- The Britons use or misuse this word in a manner peculiar to themselves.
- Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
- We may misuse it, but we can scarce do worse in this respect than our whilom masters.
- Extract from : « The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue » by Various
- The most of us make ourselves miserable by a misuse of the world.
- Extract from : « Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women » by George Sumner Weaver
- And of our misuse of the Rockefellers and Carnegies--the retrospect is appalling.
- Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann
Antonyms for misuse
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