abuse
/əˈbjuz/ v [T]Definition
› to treat a person or animal badly or cruelly, or to use something in the wrong way: He was always welcome but he never abused the privilege by visiting us too often.
(Definition of abuse v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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