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verb (used with object)
1.
to treat badly, unjustly, cruelly, etc.
noun
2.
Also, ill-us·age. bad, unjust, or cruel treatment.
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Ill-using
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
1835–45
1835–45
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