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101Reactive attachment disorder — DiseaseDisorder infobox Name = Reactive attachment disorder |thumb|190px Caption = Children need sensitive and responsive caregivers to develop secure attachments. DiseasesDB = ICD10 = ICD10|F|94|1|f|90, ICD10|F|94|2|f|90 ICD9 = 313.89 ICDO =… …
102abuse — 1. noun /əˈbjuːs,əˈbjus/ a) Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; perversion. Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power. b) Physical or verbal …
103injure — in·jure vt in·jured, in·jur·ing 1: to interfere with or violate the legally protected interests of: as a: to harm the physical, emotional, or mental well being of b: to cause (another) to suffer from damage to, deprivation of, or interference… …
104assail — I verb accost, adgredi, adoriri, advance against, advance upon, aggress, assault, assault belligerently, attack, beset, encounter, fall upon, invade, mug, oppugn, oppugnare, rush upon, savage, set upon, set upon with violence, storm, thrust at,… …
105ill-use — I verb abuse, abuti, afflict, be hurtful, be malevolent, bruise, buffet, castigate, cause evil, damage, deal hard measure to, do an injustice to, do evil, do harm to, do violence, do wrong, flagellate, grind, harm, hurt, ill treat, injure, knock… …
106misemploy — I verb abuse, abuti, corrupt, defile, desecrate, dissipate, distort, divert, employ improperly, ill treat, ill use, maltreat, manipulate improperly, misapply, misappropriate, misconduct, misdirect, misdo, mishandle, mismanage, misrule, misspend,… …
107mishandle — I (maltreat) verb abuse, assail, assault, batter, defile, handle badly, ill treat, ill use, impose upon, injure, manhandle, maul, misemploy, misuse, molest, overburden, persecute, ravish, rough, treat abusively, treat ill, treat improperly,… …
108mistreat — I verb abuse, afflict, aggrieve, annoy, assail, assault, attack, badger, be hurtful, be malevolent, be offensive, be pitiless, be rude, be violent, bear malice, berate, bother, bruise, bully, burden, cause evil, cause pain, create havoc, debase,… …
109mishandle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. maltreat; mismanage, misguide. See error, wrong. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. mistreat, harm, misemploy; see abuse 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. botch, *screw up, *flub, mismanage, mess up,… …
110misuse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. misusage, misemploy ment, misapplication, misappropriation; abuse, profanation, perversion, prostitution, ill use, ill usage; desecration; waste. v. t. misemploy, misapply, misappropriate; ill use. II …
