Significat (Anglès)
- Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
- (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
- (archaic) Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
- Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
- Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
- (archaic) Catachrestic.
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himiliating
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Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/əˈbjuː.sɪv/
Etimologia (Anglès)
First attested in the 1530s. From French abusif, from Latin abūsīvus, from abusus + -ivus (“-ive”). Equivalent to abuse + -ive.
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