Synonyms:
abused
Meaning: used improperly or excessively especially drugs; "an abused substance"
Usage examples
Now Lucy did not like to hear the Greystocks abused, and would say so.
Depend upon it, Ruby, no cabman likes to be abused any more than his fare.
I said that I did not like to have Pont abused and that I would go along with him.
Dick showed Bessie the letter, and she abused him for that he had ever sent Torpenhow away and ruined her life.
From all this we deduce the highly important practical rule: In a case of whitlow, first ascertain whether and how far Sulphur has been abused by the patient.
The best anti-psoric under these circumstances, is Sulphur 30, one pellet, provided this drug has not yet been abused; or Causticum 30, one pellet, if such an abuse has taken place.
And when Caesar was informed that Agrippa was dead, and that the inhabitants of Sebaste and Cesarea had abused him, he was sorry for the first news, and was displeased with the ingratitude of those cities.
Some, you see, maintain that this really is the most precious thing for mankind; choice can, of course, if it chooses, be in agreement with reason; and especially if this be not abused but kept within bounds.
In case Sulphur had been abused by the patient, we mix a few drops of Apis 3 in twelve tablespoonfuls of water, giving a tablespoonful every hour, or every two or three hours, according as the pains are more or less violent.
I hoped to find you penitent and ready to forsake your evil courses; and in that case, intended to help you to pay off your debts and begin anew, without paining father with the knowledge that his confidence in you has been again so shamefully abused.