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Definition: Ill-use |
Ill-useVerb1. Treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ill-use" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Synonyms: Ill-useSynonyms: abuse (v), ill-treat (v), maltreat (v), mistreat (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inexpedience | Maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul; smite; (scourge); do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce, outrage. |
Malevolence | Molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at; play the devil with; hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind; maltreat; illtreat, ill-use. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "ill-use"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Manx | jannoo drogh ghellal rish. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ill-useay.(various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự ngược đãi (ill-treatment, ill-usage, mistreatment, misusage, misuse, persecution, punishment), sự hà nh hạ (abuse, abusiveness, excruciation, ill-treatment, maltreatment), sự bạc đâi (ill-treatment, ill-usage, misuse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: ileus, lieus, lisle. | |
-2 letters: ells, ills, isle, leis, lies, lieu, lues, sell, sill, slue. | |
-3 letters: ell, els, ill, lei, leu, lie, lis, sei, sel, sue, use. | |
-4 letters: el, es, is, li, si, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: bullies, cullies, gullies, illumes, ligules, pilules, sullied, sullies, tuilles. | |
+2 letters: allusive, bulliest, cullises, duellist, illusive, levulins, libelous, mulleins, mullites, quillets, rouilles, soullike, squillae, vitellus. | |
+3 letters: aiguilles, alleluias, bdelliums, bluebills, bluegills, bluelines, bulletins, caulicles, collusive, coquilles, duellists, elusively, fulleries, fusillade, glutelins, guerillas, guileless, guiltless, illumines, insoluble, lazulites, leisurely, libellous, linoleums, lodicules, loudliest, lullabies, luteolins, multiples, nullifies, nullities, plausible, pulsatile, quinellas, sensillum, siliculae, squallier, sublimely, subtilely, tailleurs, tullibees, unselling, unskilled, unsullied. | |
+4 letters: alliaceous, allusively, andouilles, berylliums, bisexually, bushelling, cellulites, cellulitis, celluloids, cellulosic, collegiums, colloquies, delusional, delusively, dissoluble, dullsville, emulsoidal, fulfillers, fusillades, gallinules, gruellings, guerrillas, guillemets, guillemots, guilloches, hellacious, houselling, illusively, illustrate, insolubles, kilojoules, lenticules, milliluces, milliluxes, multiplets, multiplies, nullifiers, outbullies, outselling, perilously, petiolules, pluguglies, pluralizes, pupillages, quadrilles, quesadilla, rebellious, residually, rubellites, sculleries, seguidilla, solubilise, solubilize, spitefully, squalliest, squirrelly, sublimable, surveilled, televisual, tellurides, telluriums, unshelling, upswelling, upwellings, vitelluses. | |
+5 letters: animalcules, aquarellist, aspergillum, aspergillus, brucellosis, bullfinches, bullishness, bullshitted, cellulosics, citrullines, collusively, counselling, deliciously, deliriously, derailleurs, desultorily, disannulled, dissolutely, dullsvilles, ebulliences, ebullitions, euglobulins, exclusively, feloniously, feuilletons, fruitlessly, gladioluses, guilelessly, guillotines, guiltlessly, illuminates, illustrated, illustrates, implausible, impulsively, inclusively, irresoluble, legislature, maquillages, masculinely, mellifluous, melodiously, millefleurs, millenniums, millicuries, multiplexes, multipliers, outspelling, painfullest, pitifullest, pluralities, polysulfide, prelusively, publishable, quesadillas, reclusively, religiously, repulsively, seclusively, seguidillas, soliloquies, soliloquise, soliloquize, solubilised, solubilises, solubilized, solubilizes, spirituelle, spitefuller, squirrelled, subaerially, submultiple, surveillant, surveilling, thimblefuls, ultrasimple, umbellifers, universally, unlikeliest, unloveliest, unplausible, unselfishly, unsoldierly, vaudevilles, victuallers, willfulness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6C 6C 2D 75 73 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01110101 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l l - u s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 006C 002D 0075 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43787815878571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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