• n.
    ⦿cruel or inhumane treatment
    lexical concept
  • the child showed signs of physical abuse

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:abuse
  2. enl:ill-treatment
  3. enl:ill-usage
  4. enl:maltreatment
wn:interlingual indexili:i37611
wn:eq synonymdn:mishandling§1

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelabuseill-treatmentill-usagemaltreatment