Crossword clues for abuser
abuser
- Candidate for rehab
- Exploitative one
- Privilege loser, often
- Bully, e.g
- One who overdoes a privilege
- Vituperative one
- Substance overdoer
- Playground bully, e.g
- One taking advantage of privilege
- One overstepping bounds
- Maligning sort
- Hurtful sort
- Drug addict, e.g
- Child ___ (cruel parent)
- Any excessive drug user
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abuser \A*bus"er\, n. One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., agent noun from abuse (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who abuses someone or something. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.)(R:SOED5: page=10) 2 (context obsolete English) One who uses in an illegal or wrongful use. (Attested from the mid 17th century until the mid 18th century.)
WordNet
n. someone who abuses [syn: maltreater]
Usage examples of "abuser".
The delicate but immensely strong thread of love that binds an abused child to her abuser is only too clear.
I did: knew abusee usually turns to abuser for comfort once attack over.
The abuser creates a situation in which everyone in the family is dependent upon him.
Often trauma victims are too concerned with finding their family, surviving, grieving deaths, getting away from their abuser, etc.
The abused becomes so unable to confront the abuser that she can not walk out.
The long list of excuses dramatically illustrates to the abuser how many ways his mind distorts and denies reality.
So I started to work with them and, from the time I did my first study, I was surprised to see that the brains of the cocaine abusers had very severe changes.
The fact that these drug abusers were in jail proved, once and for all, that drugs drove people to crime.
This exclusive club of cocaine abusers gradually began to recruit new members and, by 1959, 30 heroin addicts in theUKhad tried cocaine.
Late-night cafes inNew Yorkwere apparently so familiar with this procedure that waiters and other diners would smile indulgently at Benzedrine abusers when they picked up the smell of menthol across the room.
The gap between what was human, with this smart, caring woman, and what was inhuman, with the gomers and the abusers, became too much.
The women in Group X know Malik is killing abusers, and also that he killed an innocent man.
Abuse victims, we often read, continue the cycle by becoming abusers themselves.
Of course, the insecure aspects of many abusers are well concealed within the arrogance.
Il entra dans son salon le sourire aux levres, decide a se montrer bon prince et a ne pas abuser des avantages de sa position: malgre tout elle etait la mere de Corysandre.