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abuser

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
English abuse
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English abuser

    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).

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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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