Abuse
Both words in one sentence
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One could also easily imagine a person who has suffered abuse needing to, say, not watch Law & Order: Special Victims Unit if they'd been molested.
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My Greatest Failure: Ray feels responsible for Bunchys abuse, as he went to a baseball game to meet Mickey (who never showed) on the night Father OConnor first molested him.
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And probably one of the more complex examples; Molestation/Molested is sometimes translated as the Spanish verb "Molestar" which means "to disturb" or "to annoy" while in English means sexual abuse.
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