misust

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A form of misuse — An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something.

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Meanings

verb
  1. obsoleteparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of misuse

    For aye the more that she did them entreat, / The more they him misust, and cruelly did beat.

    1650, Edmund Spenser, “The Faery Queen”, in A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, volume 2, published 1792, book 6, canto 8, verse 3, page 389
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Chicago

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