Synonyms for Mis-using:

• v.

  •abuse (verb)
  • mar,
  • pollute,
  • mishandle,
  • rough up,
  • impair,
  • persecute,
  • oppress,
  • total,
  • violate,
  • victimize,
  • misuse,
  • overwork,
  • beat up,
  • bang up,
  • defile,
  • harm,
  • hose,
  • roughhouse,
  • bung up,
  • ruin,
  • overtax,
  • overburden,
  • exhaust,
  • deprave,
  • damage,
  • wax,
  • spoil,
  • taint.
  •corrupt (verb)
  • debauch,
  • disgrace,
  • warp,
  • depreciate,
  • degrade,
  • bastardize,
  • undermine,
  • bribe,
  • decay,
  • grease palm,
  • infect,
  • abuse,
  • rot,
  • suborn,
  • reduce,
  • disfigure,
  • putrefy,
  • deform,
  • vitiate,
  • hurt,
  • demoralize,
  • blight,
  • adulterate,
  • stain,
  • lure,
  • pull down,
  • lower,
  • debase,
  • fix,
  • square,
  • contaminate,
  • despoil,
  • ravage,
  • injure,
  • subvert,
  • animalize,
  • blemish,
  • deface,
  • dishonor,
  • decompose,
  • demean,
  • abase.
  •dissipate (verb)
  • dump,
  • kiss goodbye,
  • burn up,
  • be wasteful with,
  • fritter away,
  • deplete,
  • consume,
  • trifle away,
  • lavish,
  • use up,
  • indulge oneself,
  • misspend,
  • throw away.
  •embezzle (verb)
  • forge,
  • peculate,
  • purloin,
  • appropriate,
  • misappropriate,
  • thieve,
  • filch,
  • abstract,
  • defalcate,
  • put hand in till,
  • pilfer,
  • loot,
  • skim,
  • put hand in cookie jar.
  •harm (verb)
  • louse up,
  • nick,
  • dilapidate,
  • shock,
  • traumatize,
  • crush,
  • maim,
  • sap,
  • Disserve,
  • discommode,
  • tarnish,
  • trample,
  • dump on,
  • vandalize,
  • stab,
  • scathe,
  • zing,
  • wound,
  • cripple,
  • wing,
  • mangle,
  • sabotage,
  • mutilate,
  • shatter,
  • bruise,
  • tweak,
  • wreck,
  • wrench,
  • inconvenience,
  • incommode,
  • do violence to,
  • put down,
  • get,
  • muck up,
  • prejudice.
  •ill-treat (verb)
  • ill-use.
  •misappropriate (verb)
  • plunder,
  • embezzle,
  • swindle,
  • pocket,
  • rob.
  •mishandle (verb)
  • Mismanager.
  •mishandle/mismanage (verb)
  • fumble,
  • goof,
  • confound,
  • flub,
  • misgovern,
  • err,
  • overlook,
  • maladminister,
  • put foot in,
  • bungle,
  • be inefficient,
  • misdirect,
  • be incompetent,
  • gum up,
  • muff,
  • goof up,
  • shoot oneself in foot,
  • misconduct,
  • botch,
  • foul up,
  • blunder,
  • screw up,
  • make a mess of,
  • make a hash of.
  •mistreat (verb)
  • chop,
  • kick around,
  • do wrong,
  • give black eye,
  • rip,
  • push around,
  • bash,
  • trash,
  • backbite,
  • knock around.
  •misuse (verb)
  • go through,
  • ill-treat,
  • outrage,
  • mistreat,
  • wrong,
  • misapply,
  • pervert,
  • maul,
  • squander,
  • handle roughly,
  • prostitute,
  • corrupt,
  • run through,
  • profane,
  • shake up,
  • Misemploy,
  • molest,
  • desecrate,
  • mess up,
  • exploit,
  • dissipate,
  • blow,
  • cut up,
  • waste,
  • maltreat,
  • brutalize.
  •molest (verb)
  • displace,
  • hinder,
  • intrude,
  • assail,
  • encroach,
  • Illtreat,
  • disorganize,
  • accost,
  • attack,
  • rape,
  • interfere,
  • disturb,
  • meddle,
  • fondle.
  •murder (verb)
  • dispatch,
  • smother,
  • dust off,
  • knife,
  • decapitate,
  • blot out,
  • thrash,
  • HIT,
  • eliminate,
  • assassinate,
  • do in,
  • cool,
  • knock off,
  • electrocute,
  • lynch,
  • off,
  • chill,
  • extinguish,
  • liquidate,
  • slaughter,
  • execute,
  • shoot,
  • rub out,
  • take out,
  • hang,
  • snuff,
  • strangle,
  • take a life,
  • defeat,
  • put away,
  • drub,
  • massacre,
  • guillotine,
  • butcher,
  • exterminate,
  • slay,
  • behead,
  • finish,
  • destroy,
  • asphyxiate,
  • eradicate,
  • garotte,
  • bump off,
  • take for a ride,
  • abolish.
  •outrage (verb)
  • fire up,
  • raise Cain,
  • jar,
  • make hit the ceiling,
  • kick up a row,
  • ravish,
  • madden,
  • ill- treat,
  • deflower,
  • infuriate,
  • insult,
  • scandalize,
  • boil over,
  • incense,
  • aggrieve,
  • force,
  • affront,
  • whip up,
  • reach boiling point.
  •pervert (verb)
  • divert,
  • cut,
  • brainwash,
  • salt,
  • distort,
  • fake,
  • water,
  • misstate,
  • garble,
  • misinterpret,
  • misconstrue,
  • color,
  • alloy,
  • falsify,
  • phony up,
  • doctor,
  • fudge,
  • seduce,
  • misrepresent,
  • doctor up,
  • spike.
  •profane (verb)
  • flame,
  • cuss,
  • blaspheme,
  • be evil,
  • darn,
  • revile,
  • put double whammy on,
  • commit sacrilege,
  • tar,
  • voodoo,
  • vice,
  • curse,
  • befoul,
  • scorn,
  • talk dirty,
  • hoodoo,
  • swear,
  • commit sin,
  • damn,
  • mock,
  • mudsling.
  •prostitute (verb)
  • cheapen,
  • devalue.
  •punish (verb)
  • debar,
  • lash,
  • fine,
  • whip,
  • castigate,
  • discipline,
  • spank,
  • beat,
  • sentence,
  • throw the book at,
  • chastise,
  • attend to,
  • scourge,
  • slap wrist,
  • dismiss,
  • train,
  • expel,
  • knock about,
  • reprove,
  • paddle,
  • teach a lesson,
  • flog,
  • give a going over,
  • cuff,
  • lecture,
  • crack down on,
  • chasten,
  • defrock,
  • immure,
  • correct,
  • give the works,
  • batter,
  • switch,
  • blacklist,
  • exile,
  • incarcerate,
  • rap knuckles.
  •spend (verb)
  • fool around,
  • idle,
  • pass,
  • drift,
  • go,
  • while away,
  • fill,
  • devote,
  • employ,
  • let pass,
  • laze,
  • fritter,
  • put in,
  • kill.
  •squander (verb)
  • scatter,
  • cash out,
  • spring for,
  • frivol,
  • trifle,
  • be wasteful,
  • put out,
  • expend,
  • frivol away,
  • throw money around,
  • Prodigalize,
  • spend,
  • be prodigal with,
  • spend like water.
  •trifle (verb)
  • loiter,
  • lollygag,
  • amuse oneself,
  • dally,
  • waste time,
  • palter,
  • lounge,
  • coquet,
  • fool with,
  • doodle,
  • lead on,
  • wanton,
  • putter,
  • indulge in,
  • play with,
  • twiddle,
  • Fribble,
  • monkey with,
  • horse around,
  • dilly-dally,
  • fidget,
  • flirt,
  • philander,
  • play games with,
  • fool,
  • dabble,
  • futz around,
  • monkey,
  • play,
  • potter,
  • wink at,
  • dawdle,
  • toy,
  • be insincere,
  • mess with,
  • string along.
  •waste (verb)
  • disappear,
  • go to waste,
  • lose,
  • decline,
  • decrease,
  • gnaw,
  • wilt,
  • emaciate,
  • be of no avail,
  • thin,
  • atrophy,
  • eat away,
  • gamble away,
  • pour down the drain,
  • sink,
  • empty,
  • splurge,
  • drain,
  • fade,
  • wither,
  • crumble,
  • wear out,
  • ebb,
  • droop,
  • wane,
  • corrode,
  • run dry,
  • perish,
  • debilitate,
  • disable,
  • wear,
  • enfeeble.

Antonyms for Mis-using:

• v.

  • abuse
    cherish, approve, honor, care for, aid, revere, grow, defend, treasure, treat well, help, benefit, purify, commend, clean, preserve, sanctify, adulate, acclaim, compliment, respect, prize, improve, praise, esteem.
  • corrupt
    cleanse, neglect, embellish, better, ignore, bless, flourish, upgrade, exalt, favor, cure, elevate, build, chasten, strengthen, repair, dignify, heal, develop, increase, decorate, beautify, boost, ornament, enhance, obey, mend, laud, raise, adorn.
  • dissipate
    appear, accumulate, starve, collect, gather.
  • embezzle
    give, compensate, reimburse, return, pay, receive.
  • harm
    create, care, surrender, yield, fix, lose.
  • misappropriate
    use wisely.
  • mishandle
    do well.
  • mishandle/mismanage
    handle, manage.
  • mistreat
    pamper, pet, coddle, satisfy.
  • misuse
    hoard, make happy, protect, use correctly, save, guard, please, assist.
  • molest
    cheer, leave, order, organize, soothe, be careful, calm.
  • murder
    establish, inspirit, keep, construct, heat, ratify, encourage, bear, continue, warm, institute, give birth, light, start.
  • outrage
    delight, gladden, flatter.
  • pervert
    moralize, represent, leave alone, straighten.
  • punish
    exonerate, award, welcome, let go, reward.
  • spend
    get, earn, use, be lazy, misuse, take.
  • squander
    set aside.
  • trifle
    hurry, hasten, work, push, rush.
  • waste
    fill, bloom, succeed, maintain, rise.