Abuse
Abuse verb - To inflict physical or emotional harm upon.
Face
Face verb - To stand or sit with the face or front toward.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| human | human abuse | human face |
| female | female abuse | female face |
| exact | exact abuse | exact face |
| similar | similar abuse | similar face |
| Other adjectives: actual, real, serious, hideous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Then we see Scootaloo talk about not only the physical abuse she went through (smacking, spanking, and even kicks to the face), but also the mental and verbal abuse.
- Neither her verbal abuse before he created his machine or his outright bullying of her are played for laughs, and in the end Batman causes that man to repeatedly face his wife's abuse by putting him in a never-ending time loop.
Source: Domestic Abuse - Dunne also appeared in an episode of Hill Street Blues playing an abuse victim, but many of the bruises on her face were genuine, inflicted by her boyfriend (her eventual killer).
Source: Reality Subtext
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