📚 Abuse, verb.

🔉 /əˈbjuːz/ 🇬🇧 /əˈbjuːz/ 🇺🇸

❓ Definition: To use power or knowledge unfairly or wrongly.

❗️ Examples:

1. She abused her position as principal by giving jobs to her friends.
2. He felt they had abused his trust by talking about him to the press (= tricked him, although he had trusted them).
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