abuseとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /əˈbjuːs/
• (General American) enPR: əbyo͞os', IPA^(key): /əˈbjus/
• Hyphenation: ab‧use

名詞

abuse (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 abuses)

1. Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. [from around 1350 to 1470]
   • 1948, W. R. Inge, The End of an Age:

     Dickens was careful to castigate abuses which were being reformed.

   All abuse, whether physical, verbal, psychological or sexual, is bad.

   Human rights abuses.

   Synonym: misuse

2. Misuse; improper use; perversion. [from mid 16^th c.]
   • 1788, Federalist, James Madison, Number 63

     Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power.

   • 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 164:

     Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

3. (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception. [from mid 16^th c. – mid 17^th c.]
   • 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene VII:

     Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?

4. Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies. [from mid 16^th c.]
   • 1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The history of England: from the accession of James the Second, volume 9, page 153:

     The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of abuse, came to blows.

   • 1950 February 11, Alhaji Na-Alhaji in Gaskiya Fa Ti Kwabo:

     But he and all the southerners who indulge in this abuse in the newspapers should realize that this will not enable us to find a solution to our problem but will merely aggravate it.

   • 2020, “Coronavirus: Teenage girls arrested after 'abusing Chinese people wearing face masks in racially-motivated attack'”, in The Independent:

     The pair – aged 14 and 15 years old – have been accused of assaulting and shouting abuse at four people in central Southampton, police have said.

   Synonyms: invective, contumely, reproach, scurrility, insult, opprobrium

5. (now rare) Catachresis. [from late 16^th c.]

   Synonym: abusio

6. Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment. [from late 16^th c.]
7. Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis. [from late 16^th c.]

使用する際の注意点

• (misuse, perversion): Typically followed by the word of.

派生語

語源 2

From Middle English abusen, from Middle French abuser, from Latin abūsus (“misused, using up”), perfect active participle of abūtor (“to use up, misuse, consume”), from ab (“from, away from”) + ūtor (“to use”).^[2][1]

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /əˈbjuːz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbjuz/, enPR: əbyo͞oz'
• Hyphenation: abuse

動詞

abuse (三人称単数 現在形 abuses, 現在分詞 abusing, 過去形および過去分詞形 abused)

1. (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert [from around 1350 to 1470.]

   He abused his authority.

   • 1856, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the fall of Wolsey to the defeat of the Spanish Armada, volume 1, published 1870, page 353:

     This principle (if we may so abuse the word) shot rapidly into popularity

2. (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly. [from mid 16^th c.]

   Synonyms: maltreat, injure

   • a. 1990author=R. S. Thomas, At It:

     And I would have things to say to this God at the judgement, storming at him, as Job stormed with the eloquence of the abused heart.

3. (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage. [from early 17^th c.]

   Synonyms: revile, reproach, vilify, vituperate; see also Thesaurus:offend

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 14, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     The […] tellers of news abused the general.

   • 1904, W. B. Yeats, The King's Threshold:

     But ever and always curse him and abuse him.

   • 1991, Yakubu Yahaya, quoted in: 2001, Toyin Falola, Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies, p. 199:

     So we were angered by this and we could not tolerate this one because prophet Mohammed has been abused so many times in this country. Awolowo abused him sometimes ago saying that he was more successful and popular that^[sic] Mohammed and Jesus.

   • 2020, “'Our team are here to help, not hurt': Woolworths urge customers not to abuse staff”, in Nine News:

     However, shortages have seen customers yelling at employees, and abusing staff members as they work frantically to keep up with demand.

4. (transitive) To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually. [from mid 20^th c.]
5. (transitive, archaic) To violate; defile; to rape. [from around 1350 to 1470]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 2, canto 7:

     Like Angels life was then mens happy cace;
     But later ages pride, like corn-fed ſteed,
     Abuſd her plenty, and fat ſwolne encreace
     To all licentious luſt, and gan exceed

6. (transitive, obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate. [from around 1350 to 1470 – mid 18^th c.]
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Hones, a Foundling:

     Believe me, sir, he hath been abused, grossly abused to you.

7. (transitive, obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of. [from late 15^th c. – early 19^th c.]
   • 1651-2, Jeremy Taylor, "Sermon VI, The House of Feasting; or, The Epicures Measures", in The works of Jeremy Taylor, Volume 1, page 283 (1831), edited by Thomas Smart Hughes

     When Cyrus had espied Astyages and his fellows coming drunk from a banquet loaden with variety of follies and filthiness, their legs failing them, their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud and abused by a double object

8. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse. [from late 15^th century – mid 16^th c.]

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参照

• Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abuse”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.

アナグラム

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