Definitions for ill-use

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Spelling: [verb il-yooz; noun Ill-Use is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in ill-use (-eillsu).

Definitions for ill-use

noun

  1. Also, ill-usage. bad, unjust, or cruel treatment.

verb (used with object)

  1. to treat badly, unjustly, cruelly, etc.

Origin of ill-use

First recorded in 1835-45

Examples for ill-use

He preached it to his daughter that the fellow might ill-use her in some way.

There did he find and ill-use a beautiful Saxon girl, who did resist him with many tears.

They beat and ill-use me, Dick; and I am going to seek my fortune, some long way off.

For them, who now ill-use you, you have gone through life but half a man.

When he entered the house she said, 'Why did you allow them to ill-use my son.'

He said we should have his money, and hoped we would not ill-use him.

Yes, we may so ill-use our bodies that the watchman sleeps at his post!

There was nobody to tease or ill-use him, and he was never ill.

Those whom he hated he did not ill-use beyond the limits of justice.

He will ill-use us all,—and yet, major, you are going to leave us.

Word Value for ill-use
Scrable

3

Words with friends

5

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