adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
husband
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An arranged marriage of eighteen years came to an end when her abusive husband was murdered in a brawl.
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It came from a seminary friend who hand recently divorced her abusive husband .
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After divorcing her abusive husband , she remarried.
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Lawhone and his wife, Mary, befriended the woman and helped her escape from an abusive husband .
language
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The matter of sexually abusive language in texts is in some senses a separate issue.
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If he spoke, he would vent the most wicked and abusive language he had ever imagined, much less expressed.
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As Sue Lees shows, the way pupils use sexually abusive language to insult each other in schools presents particular problems for teachers.
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A neighbour's child had been breaking my constituent's windows, hurling abusive language and stealing property at will.
relationship
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She left an abusive relationship and departed the only community she had known.
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She then spent several years in and out of an abusive relationship with this man.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Drunken football fans began directing a stream of abusive language at the policemen.
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Robin left home at 16 to get away from abusive parents.
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Smith was fined £500 for making foul and abusive comments to match officials.
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The way pupils use sexually abusive language to insult each other presents particular problems for teachers.
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The woman became angry and abusive when she was not allowed into the hotel.
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Vince used abusive language to her and other staff members.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After several unwarranted and unreasonably abusive attacks in the press, Riva Palacio resigned on August 10, 1848.
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Agency staffers want the Commission to seek a Federal court injunction barring Microsoft from what they consider abusive practices.
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An arranged marriage of eighteen years came to an end when her abusive husband was murdered in a brawl.
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President Clinton grew up in an abusive home.
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She has been in an abusive marriage; he has been incarcerated for six years.
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The legal rights of children are emphasized, as are the prosecution and punishment of negligent or abusive parents.
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The matter of sexually abusive language in texts is in some senses a separate issue.
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They called each other abusive names, which might have been alarming if I had not heard it all before.