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misuse

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English

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Etymology 1

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Frommis- +‎use(noun).

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /mɪsˈjuːs/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
Rhymes:-uːs

Noun

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misuse (countable anduncountable,pluralmisuses)

Anincorrect,improper orunlawfuluse of something.
- 2012 June 4, Lewis Smith, “Queen’s English Society says enuf is enough, innit?: Society formed 40 years ago to protect language against poor spelling and grammar closes because too few people care”, inThe Guardian‎^[1], London, archived fromthe original on10 March 2016:
  The Queen may be celebrating her jubilee but the Queen's English Society, which has railed against themisuse and deterioration of the English language, is to fold.

Translations

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incorrect, improper or unlawful use

Albanian:shpërdoroj (sq)
Bulgarian:злоупотреба (bg) f(zloupotreba)
Czech:zneužití (cs) n
Danish:misbrug n or c
Esperanto:misuzo
Finnish:väärinkäyttö (fi)
French:mésusage (fr) m
German:Missbrauch (de) m,missbräuchliche Nutzung/Verwendung f,Fehlbedienung f,Fehlgebrauch n,Zweckentfremdung f
Greek:κατάχρηση (el) f(katáchrisi)
Hungarian:visszaélés (hu)
Indonesian:penyalahgunaan (id)
Italian:abuso (it)
Kabuverdianu:abuza,abuzá
Malay:salah guna (ms)
Malayalam:ദുരുപയോഗം (ml)(durupayōgaṁ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål:misbruk m or n
Nynorsk:misbruk m or n
Spanish:mal uso m
Volapük:migeb (vo)
Walloon:mezuzance (wa) f

Etymology 2

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Frommis- +‎use(verb).

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /mɪsˈjuːz/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
Rhymes:-uːz

Verb

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misuse (third-person singular simple presentmisuses,present participlemisusing,simple past and past participlemisusedor(obsolete)misust)

(transitive) To use (something) incorrectly.[from 14th c.]
(transitive) Toabuse ormistreat (something or someone).[from 14th c.]
(transitive) Torape (a woman); later more generally, to sexually abuse (someone).[from 14th c.]
- 2013,Philipp Meyer,The Son, Simon & Schuster, published2014, page326:
  “If that is true she would be the first case I have ever heard of, as most female captives aremisused by the entire tribe.”
(obsolete, transitive) Toabuse verbally, toinsult.[16th–17th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym;Robert Burton],The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps,→OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 7:
  Socrates was brought upon the stage by Aristophanes, andmisused to his face: but he laughed, as if it concerned him not […].