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abused

How to use abused in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for abused.

Editorial note

Were you ever sexually abused as a child? 7.

Examples20
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

used improperly or excessively especially drugs; "an abused substance"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of abused gathered in one view.

adjective

used improperly or excessively especially drugs; "an abused substance"

adjective

subjected to cruel treatment; "an abused wife"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for abused.

adjective

used improperly or excessively especially drugs; "an abused substance"

Example sentences

1

Were you ever sexually abused as a child? 7.

2

What would happen if it was some abused woman who OKCupid gave their account info out to her abuser? Yeah- Get a legal order if you want that info.

3

Aside from not protecting anybody, can you begin to imagine the ways such a system could be abused? It staggers the mind.

4

Of course their power can be abused, but once you know how to avoid the abuse, regular expressions are a great and easy to use tool.

5

Any exception or loophole to transparency gets abused, every time. If that makes it harder to conduct wars or espionage, well too bad.

6

Estimates vary, but something likely over 10% of the population has been abused. That's a lot.

7

The average person, hearing "child porn", conjures images of minors being abducted and abused in some basement, or being abused by relatives. If only child porn laws were tailored that narrowly.

8

I think it's the permanent nature of what goes online that bothers me about it - there is a freedom to pseudonymity that, when not abused, is quite wonderful.

9

Imagine the power that subset would hold, and all the ways it would likely be abused. Unless we want to ensure our every communication and personal note is fit for public consumption, some things are by definition our secrets.

10

And it is also true that many women abused this privilege simply by convincing their doctors that they 'cannot perform on the job while pregnant'. A few years ago there's was a sort of clampdown to this practice by tightening the control on the doctors' decisions.

11

Lets say there is a person X, who gets hired, from company Y, and person X really didn't fit in at Y and felt really abused by the company. Now new candidates from Y generate an email to X with the standard "You worked at Y when candidate Z did etc etc."

12

Imagine Apple, Facebook or whoever controlled the Internet like Google does: How long would it take until they abused their power? If someone is dominating the web it's Google and looking at their power and how much traffic they movetheir actions feel balanced and neutral compared to any other player.

13

So is the 4th amendment, and look how much that one is abused. In the end the Constitution really is "just a piece of paper", if not the government, not the judges, not the media, and ultimately not even the people respect it, live by it, and try to protect it as soon as it's endangered by people trying to accumulate too much power.

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Org/wiki/Battered_person_syndrome : * The abused thinks that the violence was his or her fault. * The abused has an inability to place the responsibility for the violence elsewhere. * The abused has an irrational belief that the abuser is omnipresent and omniscient.

15

That is, a system that turns a necessary but easily abused task into a profit center - thereby ensuring that it will be stretched to utterly unnecessary proportions. It had nothing to do with hunting in general, or being a vegetarian in particular.

16

Unfortunately, where the old political pull persists, the law can be abused to protect old-line market players under some guise or other that is a mere pretext for guarding them from competitors who might offer something better and wind up dislodging them in a free market. Legal regulation is not to be rejected out of hand, of course.

17

I know abused kids are a serious issue, but the vast majority of kids aren't abused, and this is a disturbing ad to show specifically to a kid, especially when the grown-up with them doesn't see it. I'm picturing walking past this billboard with my kid and having him ask "Daddy, why does that kid look all beat up" and answering "no, that kid looks perfectly normal, you're making it up".

18

Our biggest challenge is not IV, but all of those people in the world who give IV and people like them a nod, a kind of respect, an admiring acknowledgement that they've abused the system and gotten away with it. It's the same respect given to influential bankers in Wall St and London, it was the same respect given to Bush, the same respect given to wealthy men accused of rape and murder who never serve time.

19

The problems with the patent industry are patents abused by companies who have absolutely no interest in developing them but rather trolling them to simply extract money from other companies. Hence the reason the law should be reformed to attach patentable rights to have a enforceable requirement to actually 'use' the patent - thus destroying the majority of trolls.

20

The salient quote from Greenwald's article on this: They completely abused their own terrorism law for reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism: a potent reminder of how often governments lie when they claim that they need powers to stop "the terrorists", and how dangerous it is to vest unchecked power with political officials in its name. [1] This is a great example of why we should treat terrorism like any other crime, and why the police should never be trusted with exceptional powers simply because we feel under threat.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use abused in a sentence?

Were you ever sexually abused as a child? 7.

What does abused mean?

used improperly or excessively especially drugs; "an abused substance"

What part of speech is abused?

abused is commonly used as adjective.