: subjected to harmful or improper treatment : having suffered abuse
providing support for abused children/women
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The Handmaid's Tale's final season saw a revolution come to Gilead, with the abused women of this dystopia rising up to slaughter the patriarchal class and take back the U.S.
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 May 2025
Questioning Self-Worth As with minimizing the abused person’s feelings, the perpetrators of gaslighting intend to cause the person to question some aspect of their worth and ability.
—Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Fey’s next big project, the Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, wrung humor out of an abused, traumatized kidnapping victim’s adventures in a cruel city plagued by economic inequality.
—Judy Berman, Time, 1 May 2025
Todaro is the current vice president of the Buffalo chapter of Bikers Against Child Abuse, a group that uses community intervention to protect abused children.
—Lesley Cosme Torres, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 May 2025
Questioning Self-Worth As with minimizing the abused person’s feelings, the perpetrators of gaslighting intend to cause the person to question some aspect of their worth and ability.
—Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Fey’s next big project, the Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, wrung humor out of an abused, traumatized kidnapping victim’s adventures in a cruel city plagued by economic inequality.
—Judy Berman, Time, 1 May 2025
Todaro is the current vice president of the Buffalo chapter of Bikers Against Child Abuse, a group that uses community intervention to protect abused children.
—Lesley Cosme Torres, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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“Abused.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abused. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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