• v.
    ⦿use wrongly or improperly or excessively
    lexical concept
  • Her husband often abuses alcohol
  • while she was pregnant, she abused drugs

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:abuse
wn:interlingual indexili:i22741

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelabuse