• n.
    ⦿improper or excessive use
    lexical concept
  • alcohol abuse
  • the abuse of public funds

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:abuse
  2. enl:misuse
wn:interlingual indexili:i40386

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • abusemisuse
  • misuse