abused

1. 1
   adjective

   Having been hurt or treated cruelly by another person, often a parent or partner.

   The shelter takes in abused women who have nowhere else to go.

   Rescued from a cruel owner, the abused horse slowly learned to trust people again.

   Similarbattered, victimized

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of abuse. Use this form for something that already happened.

   He abused his power to get whatever he wanted.

   The trust she placed in him was abused.

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3. 3
   adjective

   Used far too much, or wasted by being used too freely.

   Like a favorite song played so many times that you get sick of it.

   Antibiotics are so heavily abused that many infections no longer respond to them.

   That worn-out buzzword gets abused in every meeting.

   Similaroverused, overworked, misused, hackneyed

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