abuser

English

Etymology

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbjuː.zə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈbju.zɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːzə(ɹ)

Noun

abuser (plural abusers)

1. One who abuses someone or something. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

   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 17^th century until the mid 18^th century.]

Derived terms

• child abuser
• coabuser
• drug abuser
• nonabuser
• polyabuser
• self-abuser
• solvent abuser

Descendants

• → Russian: абью́зер (abʹjúzer)

Translations

one who abuses a person

• Finnish: pahoinpitelijä (fi), hyväksikäyttäjä (fi)
• Italian: abusante (it) m or f, abusatore m, abusatrice f
• Plautdietsch: Jewaulteewa m

sexual abuser

• Finnish: hyväksikäyttäjä (fi)

substance abuser

• Finnish: ongelmakäyttäjä
• Swedish: missbrukare (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: misbruiker (nl) m, misbruikster (nl) f
• German: Missbraucher (de)
• Portuguese: abusador (pt)
• Spanish: abusador (es) m, maltratador m

Anagrams

• bursæ, bauers, bursae, Subera, Abreus, Sauber, Breaus

French

Etymology

From abus +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.by.ze/

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Verb

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

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

• abuseur
• abusif
• si je ne m'abuse

Further reading

• “abuser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Norman

Alternative forms

• abûther (St. Ouen)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Jersey) IPA^(key): /abyːze/

Verb

abuser

1. (Jersey) to abuse

References

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