"abuse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

abuse verbo

abuse + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 30
abuse Afghan children • abuse one's power • abuse drugs • abuse one's position • abuse alcohol • ...
(3) drug, alcohol, laxative
Kolokacji: 3
(5) cocaine, heroin
Kolokacji: 2
1. abuse cocaine = nadużycie kokaina abuse cocaine
2. abuse heroin = heroina nadużycia abuse heroin
  • In interviews in recent years, Dr. Newton had acknowledged drinking two quarts of cognac a day and abusing cocaine, heroin and Valium.
  • Failed attempts at reconciliation with Linda and with her mother, Kathleen (Mercedes Ruehl), drive Gia to begin abusing heroin.
  • In 1969 at age 22, Christman went through a difficult period abusing heroin in San Francisco, California.
  • Another application that has been trialled in the Netherlands is prescription of oral dextromoramide as a way to try to reduce injecting drug use in recidivist opioid addicts who continued to abuse heroin despite being maintained on methadone.
  • "If we can find the gene and learn what the gene's products are, we may be able to prevent people from abusing heroin."
  • Before the age of 18 he was abusing alcohol, cocaine, and heroin.
  • In 2004, American hospital emergency rooms treated 400,000 patients between the ages 35 and 64 for abusing heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, hallucinogens and "club drugs" like ecstasy.
  • A methadone clinic is a clinic which has been established for the dispensing of methadone (Dolophine), a schedule II narcotic analgesic, to those who abuse heroin and other opiates.
  • The man had spent large chunks of his life abusing heroin and wandering the streets of New York City before he contracted the virus that causes AIDS.
  • Mr. Howard explained the coupon rules: "You have to be actively abusing heroin."
verbo + abuse
Kolokacji: 3
begin abusing • start abusing • deny abusing
abuse + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
abuse in • abused by • abuse at • abuse for • abuse during • ...
abuse + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 19
sexually abuse • physically abuse • verbally abuse • repeatedly abused • emotionally abused • ...

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