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発音

• IPA: /əˈbjuːzd/, enPR: əbyo͞ozdʹ
• 韻: -uːzd
• ハイフネーション: abused

動詞

abused

1. simple past and past participle of abuse
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:abused.

形容詞

abused (comparative more abused, superlative most abused)

1. Having been a victim of some form of abuse, most commonly child abuse or domestic violence.
2. Overused; used profligately or in excess.
3. (obsolete) Deluded, deceived.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 5–7:

     That be so farre abusyd
     They cannot be excusyd
     By reason nor by law; […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:abused.

使用する際の注意点

The second sense ("Overused; used profligately or in excess") is uncommon except in the phrase much-abused.

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