abuser

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who maltreats another or misuses something habitually

   The clinic offered support to victims and counselling to the abuser.

From abuse + -er, from Old French abuser, from Latin abūsus, past participle of abūtī ('to misuse, use up'), from ab- ('away, amiss') + ūtī ('to use').

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