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To use something in the wrong way — either by accident, or in a way that causes harm, or for a purpose it was never meant for. You can misuse a word (use it with the wrong meaning), misuse power (use your position to do something unfair), or misuse medicine (take it in a way that's not safe). As a noun, 'misuse' is the wrong or harmful use itself: 'the misuse of public money.'
誤用、濫用
組成mis- (wrongly) + use.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
misusenoun詞源 1/mɪsˈjuːs/
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An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something.
- The Queen may be celebrating her jubilee but the Queen's English Society, which has railed against the misuse and deterioration of the English language, is to fold.
misuseverb詞源 2/mɪsˈjuːz/
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To use (something) incorrectly.
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To abuse or mistreat (something or someone).
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To rape (a woman); later more generally, to sexually abuse (someone).
- “If that is true she would be the first case I have ever heard of, as most female captives are misused by the entire tribe.”
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obsoleteTo abuse verbally, to insult.
- Socrates was brought upon the stage by Aristophanes, and misused to his face: but he laughed, as if it concerned him not […].
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。