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ABUSION

Definition: ABUSION

ABUSION

Transitive verb

1. Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ABUSION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Etymology: Abusion \A*bu"sion\, noun. [from Old English expression abusion, abusioun, Old French abusion, from the Latin expression abusio misuse of words, f. abuti. See Abuse, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: ABUSION

Language Translations for "abusion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

abusionay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "ABUSION"

Words rhyming with "ABUSION" (pronounced 'A*bu"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension, Confession, Confusion, Congression, Consension, Conspersion, Contorsion, Contraversion, Controversion, Contusion, Conversion, Convulsion, Corrasion, Corrosion, Decession, Decision, Declension, Decursion, Delapsion, Delusion, Demersion, Demission, Demulsion, Deprehension, Depression, Depulsion, Derision, Descension, Detersion, Detorsion, Detrusion, Diffission, Diffusion, Digression, Dimension, Dimission, Discession, Disclusion, Discommission, Discursion, Discussion, Dismission, Dispansion, Dispassion, Dispersion, Displosion, Dispossession, Dissension, Dissuasion, Distension, Diversion, Effossion, Effusion, Egression, Elapsion, Elusion, Emersion, Emission, Empassion, Emulsion, Erasion, Evasion, Eversion, Evulsion, Excision, Exclusion, Excursion, Excussion, Exesion, Expansion, Explosion, expression, extension, Extersion, Extramission, Extraversion, Extroversion, Extrusion, Fidejussion, fission, fusion, Illision, illusion, immersion, Immission, Impassion, implosion, imprecision, impression, Improvision, impulsion, Inadhesion, Inapprehension, Incension, Incession, incision, inclusion, Incompassion, incomprehension, Inconfusion, incursion, INDECISION, Indivision, Inextension, infusion, Ingression, Inhesion, Inrecision, Insession, Inspersion, Insubmission, intension, intercession, Interclusion, Interfusion, intermission, interspersion, Intorsion, Intrafusion, Introcession, Introgression, intromission, Intropression, introversion, intrusion, invasion, inversion, Invision, Irremission, Irrision, lesion, manumission, Mersion, misapprehension, Misconclusion, Misdivision, Misexpression, Mispassion, Mispersuasion, Misprision, Nonadmission, Noncohesion, Nonsubmission, Obsession, Obtension, Obtrusion, Obtusion, Obversion, Occision, Occlusion, Occursion, Offension, Omission, Oppression, Ostension, Outpassion, Percussion, Perfusion, Permansion, permission, Perpension, Perpession, Persuasion, Pertusion, Pervasion, Perversion, Portension, Preadmission, Preapprehension, Precession, Precision, Preclusion, Prehension, Prepossession, Presension, Pression, Pretension, Pretermission, Prevision, Profession, Profusion, Prolapsion, Prolusion, Propension, Propulsion, Protension, Protrusion, Pulsion, readmission, Reascension, Recension, Recision, Reclusion, Recommission, Reconversion, recursion, Recussion, Refossion, Refusion, regression, Reimpression, repercussion, repossession, reprehension, repression, repulsion, rescission, Respersion, Responsion, Retrocession, retrogression, retroversion, Retrusion, reversion, revision, revulsion, scansion, scission, secession, seclusion, Self-delusion, self-possession, session, Sponsion, suasion, subdivision, Subingression, submersion, submission, subversion, succession, Succision, succussion, Suffossion, suffusion, supersession, supervision, suppression, Supravision, suspension, Thermotension, torsion, Transcension, Transcursion, transfusion, transgression, transmission, Transversion, Trusion, Uncircumcision, Unconversion, Unintermission, Unpersuasion, Version. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ABUSION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-i-n-o-s-u"

-1 letter: basion, bonsai, nubias.

-2 letters: basin, bison, bonus, bosun, nabis, nubia, obias, sabin, unais.

-3 letters: abos, ains, anis, anus, bani, bans, bias, bins, bios, boas, buns, ions, isba, nabs, naoi, naos, nibs, nobs, nous, nubs, obia, obis, onus, sain, snib, snob, snub, suba, unai.

-4 letters: abo, abs, ain, ais, ani, ban, bas, bin, bio, bis, boa, bos, bun, bus, ins, ion, nab, nib, nob, nos, nub, nus, obi, ons, sab, sau, sib, sin, sob, son, sou, sub, sun, uns.

-5 letters: ab, ai, an, as, ba, bi, bo, in, is, na, no, nu, on, os, si, so, un, us.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-i-n-o-s-u"
 

+1 letter: bimanous, ouabains.

 

+2 letters: ablutions, abutilons, isobutane, olibanums, sublation.

 

+3 letters: abductions, abruptions, absolution, albuminous, binoculars, boundaries, buoyancies, incubators, isobutanes, ovalbumins, sublations, suboceanic, substation, unsociable, unsociably.

 

+4 letters: abjurations, absolutions, abstentious, ambulations, buccinators, butylations, dubitations, floribundas, incubations, intubations, jubilations, lobulations, obfuscating, obfuscation, obnubilates, obscurantic, obscuration, obturations, outbargains, outboasting, subaudition, subdominant, subjugation, sublimation, subluxation, subnational, subordinate, subornation, subpoenaing, subrational, subregional, subrogating, subrogation, substations, subtotaling, subtraction, tabulations, tambourines, unambiguous, unambitious.

 

+5 letters: absolutizing, adumbrations, attributions, bifurcations, blastulation, carburetions, concubinages, connubialism, conurbations, discountable, habituations, inconsumable, inconsumably, insalubrious, lubrications, lucubrations, masturbation, nimbostratus, noctambulist, nonambiguous, obfuscations, objurgations, obscurantism, obscurantist, obscurations, publications, questionable, questionably, rambunctious, ribonuclease, rubrications, somnambulism, somnambulist, subarachnoid, subauditions, subdominants, suberization, subjugations, sublimations, subluxations, subnormality, subordinated, subordinates, subordinator, subornations, subrogations, subsonically, subtotalling, subtractions, surfboarding, tribulations, urbanisation, urbanologies, urbanologist.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ABUSION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 42 55 53 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -...    ..-    ...    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000010 01010101 01010011 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#66 &#85 &#83 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0042 0055 0053 0049 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35365553434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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