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abuser

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English

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Etymology

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From abuse +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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abuser (plural abusers)

  1. One who abuses someone or something. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
    drug abuser
    cocaine abuser
    child abuser
    abuser of my generosity
    • 2006, Christiane Sanderson, Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, page 17:
      Child sexual abusers are highly manipulative in their befriending of parents and children and are able to deceive all types of family.
    • 2014, Alison Miller, Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse, Karnac Books, →ISBN, page 185:
      [The person] who was going to visit her with his wife had a physical resemblance to the abuser, so some of her inside children had a strong reaction of fear and revulsion to him. They were afraid to look at the face of the guest in case he was the abuser.
    • 2018 April, Larry Zimmerman, “Cheap and Easily Manipulated Video”, in The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association‎[1], Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Bar Association, →ISSN, page 21:
      Ordinary people have already been face-swapped into videos for humorous or prank purposes and there is no reason to believe that abusers, harassers, stalkers, and blackmailers will not soon be face-swapping victims into compromising video as part of their arsenal.
  2. (obsolete) One who uses in an illegal or wrongful use. [Attested from the mid 17th century until the mid 18th century.][1]

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Russian: абью́зер (abʹjúzer)

Translations

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abuser”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.

Anagrams

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French

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Etymology

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From abus +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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abuser

  1. to mislead
  2. to take advantage [with de ‘of’] (especially sexually)
  3. to abuse (use improperly)
  4. (intransitive, slang) to go too far
    Synonym: exagérer
    Mec, t’abuses, ça fait au moins trente minutes que je t’attends ! ― Dude, you're taking advantage, it's been at least thirty minutes I've been waiting for you!

Conjugation

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Conjugation of abuser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple abuser
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple abusant
/a.by.zɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle abusé
/a.by.ze/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present abuse
/a.byz/ 		abuses
/a.byz/ 		abuse
/a.byz/ 		abusons
/a.by.zɔ̃/ 		abusez
/a.by.ze/ 		abusent
/a.byz/
imperfect abusais
/a.by.zɛ/ 		abusais
/a.by.zɛ/ 		abusait
/a.by.zɛ/ 		abusions
/a.by.zjɔ̃/ 		abusiez
/a.by.zje/ 		abusaient
/a.by.zɛ/
past historic2 abusai
/a.by.ze/ 		abusas
/a.by.za/ 		abusa
/a.by.za/ 		abusâmes
/a.by.zam/ 		abusâtes
/a.by.zat/ 		abusèrent
/a.by.zɛʁ/
future abuserai
/a.byz.ʁe/ 		abuseras
/a.byz.ʁa/ 		abusera
/a.byz.ʁa/ 		abuserons
/a.byz.ʁɔ̃/ 		abuserez
/a.byz.ʁe/ 		abuseront
/a.byz.ʁɔ̃/
conditional abuserais
/a.byz.ʁɛ/ 		abuserais
/a.byz.ʁɛ/ 		abuserait
/a.byz.ʁɛ/ 		abuserions
/a.by.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		abuseriez
/a.by.zə.ʁje/ 		abuseraient
/a.byz.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present abuse
/a.byz/ 		abuses
/a.byz/ 		abuse
/a.byz/ 		abusions
/a.by.zjɔ̃/ 		abusiez
/a.by.zje/ 		abusent
/a.byz/
imperfect2 abusasse
/a.by.zas/ 		abusasses
/a.by.zas/ 		abusât
/a.by.za/ 		abusassions
/a.by.za.sjɔ̃/ 		abusassiez
/a.by.za.sje/ 		abusassent
/a.by.zas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — abuse
/a.byz/ 		— abusons
/a.by.zɔ̃/ 		abusez
/a.by.ze/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Norman

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin abūsus (“consumed, wasted, misused”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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abuser

  1. (Jersey) to abuse

References

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  • Spence, N.C.W. (1960). Glossary of Jersey-French. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 40.
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