| abusive |
| 1. adj. Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. | |
| 2. adj. (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent. | |
| 3. adj. (archaic) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses. | |
| 4. adj. (obsolete) Given to misusing. | |
| 5. adj. Being physically injurious; characterized by repeated violence. | |
| 6. adj. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal. | |
| 7. adj. (archaic) Catachrestic. | |
| 8. adj. (archaic) Full of abuses; practicing abuse; containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse. | |
| language |
| 1. n. A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication. | |
| The English language and the German language are related. | |
| Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL. | |
| 2. n. The ability to communicate using words. | |
| the gift of language | |
| 3. n. The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field. | |
| legal language; the language of chemistry | |
| 4. n. The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way. | |
| body language; the language of the eyes | |
| 5. n. A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate. | |
| 6. n. (computing) A computer language; a machine language. | |
| 7. n. Manner of expression. | |
| 8. n. The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text. | |
| The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation. | |
| The language he used to talk to me was obscene. | |
| 9. n. Profanity. | |
| 10. v. (rare, now nonstandard, or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language. | |
| 11. n. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ. | |
