Collocations with Abuse-2

Abuse (noun)

bad, usually violent treatment of sb

ADJECTIVE

 emotional, physical, psychological, sex, sexual –  child, elder (especially AmE), prisoner, spousal (especially AmE) –

victims of child abuse

 human rights abuses –

allegations of human rights abuses

 alleged, suspected –

ABUSE + NOUN

 victim –

PHRASES

 an allegation of abuse –

allegations of child abuse

 a perpetrator of abuse –  a victim of abuse –

OF ABUSE …

 case –

six cases of suspected child abuse

VERB + ABUSE/ ABUSE + VERB

happen, occur, take place

 commit –  subject sb to –

.She was subjected to regular sexual abuse

 experience, suffer, take –

.The child had taken a lot of emotional abuse