abused

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of abuse

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He could have been abused, or …" "Maybe he would be an orphan.
Abused spinster of a friend!
This humane privilege was grossly abused, and thus gave rise to the slang phrase "to sham Abraham."
Cond and Coligny, who, having obtained liberty of conscience in January 1561, now demanded liberty of worship. The colloquy at Poissy between the cardinal of Lorraine and Theodore Bean (September 1561), did not end in the agreement hoped for, and the duke of Guise so far abused its spirit as to embroil the French Calvinists with the German I
During the prosecution Giolitti abused his position as premier to abstract documents bearing on the case.

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