Difference between abuse and miscall
Definitions
noun
- a rude expression intended to offend or hurt
- improper or excessive use
- cruel or inhumane treatment
verb
- change the inherent purpose or function of something
- use foul or abusive language towards
- treat badly
- use wrongly or improperly or excessively
Examples
In Katine sub-county we hear about rape, defilement and child abuse, mostly of girls.
We berate those who cross the line and leave the immature and underdeveloped open to the physical abuse of contact and collision sports.
While the site focuses mainly on their environmental concerns, they're also up in arms about the Bush administration's general abuse and disregard for science - including the idea that abstinence is some kind of cureall.
Definitions
verb
- assign in incorrect name to
Examples
And these advocates, incapacitated by miscalled seminaries for alluseful endeavor, become defenders of the faith and prosecutors of all and each and any who fix their hearts on such simple and Godlike things as friendship and equality.
They are much better than most of our sacred poetry, as it is strangely miscalled, which is frequently neither poetry nor common sense: --
One morning, returning asleep on his horse, he miscalls his wife ‘Felice’ - Mrs Charmond's Christian name.
