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English
Etymology
From abuse + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
abuser (plural abusers)
- One who abuses someone or something.
- 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: 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, 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.
- (obsolete) One who uses in an illegal or wrongful use.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Translations to be checked
References
- ↑ 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
French
Etymology
From abus + -er.
Pronunciation
Verb
abuser
- to mislead
- to take advantage (especially sexually)
- to abuse (use improperly)
- (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
| abuser
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| avoir + past participle
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abusant
/a.by.zɑ̃/
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| ayant + past participle
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abusé
/a.by.ze/
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| indicative
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je (j’)
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tu
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il, elle, on
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nous
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vous
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ils, elles
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(simple
tenses)
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present
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abuse
/a.byz/
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abuses
/a.byz/
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abuse
/a.byz/
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abusons
/a.by.zɔ̃/
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abusez
/a.by.ze/
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abusent
/a.byz/
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| imperfect
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abusais
/a.by.zɛ/
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abusais
/a.by.zɛ/
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abusait
/a.by.zɛ/
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abusions
/a.by.zjɔ̃/
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abusiez
/a.by.zje/
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abusaient
/a.by.zɛ/
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| past historic2
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abusai
/a.by.ze/
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abusas
/a.by.za/
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abusa
/a.by.za/
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abusâmes
/a.by.zam/
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abusâtes
/a.by.zat/
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abusèrent
/a.by.zɛʁ/
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| future
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abuserai
/a.byz.ʁe/
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abuseras
/a.byz.ʁa/
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abusera
/a.byz.ʁa/
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abuserons
/a.byz.ʁɔ̃/
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abuserez
/a.byz.ʁe/
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abuseront
/a.byz.ʁɔ̃/
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| conditional
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abuserais
/a.byz.ʁɛ/
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abuserais
/a.byz.ʁɛ/
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abuserait
/a.byz.ʁɛ/
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abuserions
/a.by.zə.ʁjɔ̃/
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abuseriez
/a.by.zə.ʁje/
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abuseraient
/a.byz.ʁɛ/
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(compound
tenses)
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present perfect
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present indicative of avoir + past participle
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| pluperfect
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imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
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| past anterior2
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past historic of avoir + past participle
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| future perfect
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future of avoir + past participle
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| conditional perfect
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conditional of avoir + past participle
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| subjunctive
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que je (j’)
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que tu
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qu’il, qu’elle
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que nous
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que vous
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qu’ils, qu’elles
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(simple
tenses)
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present
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abuse
/a.byz/
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abuses
/a.byz/
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abuse
/a.byz/
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abusions
/a.by.zjɔ̃/
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abusiez
/a.by.zje/
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abusent
/a.byz/
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| imperfect2
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abusasse
/a.by.zas/
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abusasses
/a.by.zas/
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abusât
/a.by.za/
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abusassions
/a.by.za.sjɔ̃/
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abusassiez
/a.by.za.sje/
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abusassent
/a.by.zas/
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(compound
tenses)
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past
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present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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| pluperfect2
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imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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| imperative
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–
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tu
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–
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nous
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vous
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–
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| simple
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—
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abuse
/a.byz/
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—
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abusons
/a.by.zɔ̃/
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abusez
/a.by.ze/
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—
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| compound
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
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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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).
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Derived terms
Further reading
Norman
Etymology
From Latin abūsus (“consumed, wasted, misused”) + -er.
Pronunciation
Verb
abuser
- (Jersey) to abuse
References
- Spence, N.C.W. (1960). Glossary of Jersey-French. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 40.