Misuse

Noun

 * 1) An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something.

Verb

 * 1)  To use (something) incorrectly.
 * 2)  To abuse or mistreat (something or someone).
 * 3)  To abuse verbally, to insult.
 * 4) *1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.7:
 * Socrates was brought upon the stage by Aristophanes, and misused to his face: but he laughed, as if it concerned him not [...].

Adverbs for Misuse
brutally; crudely; ruinously; ungenerously; pitilessly; insensately; irrationally; grievously.

Thesaurus
abuse, active use, adulterate, adulteration, alloy, appliance, application, barbarism, befoul, befouling, bias, bleed, bleed white, canker, catachresis, cheapen, clerical error, coarsen, color, confound, consumption, contaminate, contamination, convert, corrigendum, corrupt, corruption, debase, debauch, defalcate, defile, defilement, deflower, degenerate, degrade, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, distort, diversion, divert, diverting, do amiss, drain, embezzle, employ, employment, envenoming, erratum, error, exercise, exertion, exploit, failure, false coloring, fault, faute, festering, foul, fouling, garble, good use, hard usage, hard use, human error, ill use, ill-treat, ill-use, impose upon, infect, infection, infelicity, make use of, maladminister, malapropism, maltreat, manipulate, milk, misapplication, misapply, misapprehension, misappropriate, misappropriation, miscalculation, miscall, miscarriage, miscite, misconception, misconduct, misconstruction, misconstrue, miscount, misdeal, misdirect, misdirection, misemploy, misemployment, misfield, mishandle, misidentification, misinterpret, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mismanage, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misquote, misread, misrender, misreport, misrepresent, misrepresentation, miss, misspell, misstatement, mistake, mistreat, mistreatment, misunderstanding, misusage, outrage, peculate, perversion, pervert, pilfer, play on, poison, poisoning, pollute, pollution, presume upon, profane, prostitute, prostitution, ravage, ravish, rough usage, slant, slanting, solecism, strain, straining, stroke, suck dry, suppuration, taint, take advantage of, torture, torturing, twist, typo, typographical error, ulcerate, usage, use, use ill, using up, varnish, violate, vitiate, vitiation, vulgarize, warp, work on, work upon, wrong use

Etymology 1
mis-: + use#Etymology 1:

Etymology 2
From mis-: + use#Etymology 2:

Noun

 * Czech:


 * Finnish:
 * French: mésusage

Verb

 * Esperanto:


 * Finnish: käyttää väärin


 * Czech:


 * Finnish: väärinkäyttää (sthg), kohdella väärin (sbd)