abuse

Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.

human rights abuses

All abuse, whether physical, verbal, psychological or sexual, is bad.

Misuse; improper use; perversion.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power.

Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.

Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?

Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.

children hurling abuse at each other

The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of abuse, came to blows.

Catachresis.

To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert

He abused his authority.

This principle (if we may so abuse the word) shot rapidly into popularity

To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.

Blows with the fist should be given on the back of the woman, which she is sitting on the lap of the man, and she should give blows in return, abusing the man as if she were angry, and making the cooing and the weeping sounds.

And I would have things to say to this God at the judgement, storming at him, as Job stormed with the eloquence of the abused heart.

To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.

The […] tellers of news abused the general.

But ever and always curse him and abuse him.

To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually.

To violate; defile; to rape; (reflexive) to masturbate.

Like Angels life was then mens happy cace; But later ages pride, like corn-fed ſteed, Abuſd her plenty, and fat ſwolne encreace To all licentious luſt, and gan exceed

This the Holy Scripture teaches, as expreſly as may be; Neither Fornicators, ſays St. Paul, nor Adulterers, nor the Abominable, ſhall inherit the Kingdom of God; cautioning alſo at the ſame time, that we don’t abuſe our ſelves, nor flatter our ſelves in this Reſpect.