• adj.
    ⦿characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment
    lexical concept
  • abusive punishment
  • argued … that foster homes are abusive

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:abusive
wn:interlingual indexili:i6348

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelabusive