abusar
Portuguese, verb/a.buˈza(ʁ)/
abusar is spelled A-B-U-S-A-R (6 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,528th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abusar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to abuse (to put to a wrong use)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “usar mal de”.
What does abusar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to abuse (to put to a wrong use)
- 2
to overindulge
- 3
to rape (to force sexual intercourse)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. usar mal de 2. acanalhar 3. insultar 4. aborrecer
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of abusar
- abuso first-person present singular
- abusei first-person preterite singular
- abusado participle past
- abusares infinitive second-person singular
- abusarmos first-person infinitive plural
- abusardes infinitive plural second-person
- abusarem infinitive plural third-person
- abusando gerund
- abusados masculine participle past
- abusada feminine participle past
- abusadas feminine participle past
- abusas indicative present second-person
- abusa indicative present singular
- abusamos first-person indicative plural
- abusais indicative plural present
- abusam indicative plural present
- abusava first-person imperfect indicative
- abusavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce abusar?
- Brazil /a.buˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.buˈza(h)]
- /a.buˈza(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to abusar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abusar in Portuguese?
abusar appears 3.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).