abuse noun
2 bad, usually violent treatment of sb
ADJECTIVE
• emotional, physical, psychological, s.ex, s.exual
• child, elder (especially AmE), prisoner, spousal (especially AmE)
victims of child abuse
• human rights abuses
allegations of human rights abuses
• alleged, suspected
… OF ABUSE
• case
six cases of suspected child abuse
VERB + ABUSE
• commit
• subject sb to
She was subjected to regular s.exual abuse.
• experience, suffer, take
The child had taken a lot of emotional abuse.
• allege, suspect sb of
ABUSE + VERB
• happen, occur, take place
ABUSE + NOUN
• victim
PHRASES
• an allegation of abuse
allegations of child abuse
• a perpetrator of abuse
• a victim of abuse
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