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abusing

verb
Sayuh-BYOO-zingUS/əˈbjuzɪŋ/UK/əˈbjuːzɪŋ/

1 meaning of abusing

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  1. 1
    verb
    Present participle of abuse.

    Investigators found the manager had been abusing company funds for years.

    Abusing alcohol over a long period had badly damaged his health.

    Note

    The -ing form does two jobs: it follows a form of be in progressive tenses (had been abusing), and it heads a gerund phrase that acts as a noun (Abusing alcohol damaged him). Either way it needs an object, because every sense of abuse is transitive: you are abusing funds, a person or a drug. In older texts, the reflexive abusing oneself meant masturbating.

abusing is a form of abuse

abuse, verb: To injure or treat someone with cruelty, especially over and over. Full entry

Forms
abuseabuses he/she/itabusing -ing formabused past tense, past participle
Spelling
abuse → abusing: drop the e, add -ing

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