ab - ūtor ūsus, ī, dep., to use up, consume, spend, exhaust: omni tempore: in prologis scribundis operam abutitur, uses up his time, T.

—Esp., to make use of for a purpose, apply, turn to account: ignoratione tuā ad hominis miseri salutem.

—Implying censure, to abuse, misapply, misuse: legibus ad quaestum: per turpitudinem (divitiis), S.: quousque tandem abutere patientiā nostrā, outrage: hac lenitate meā, presume upon.

—Esp., of words, to misapply, force, C.