(transitive) To abuse or mistreat (something or someone).
(obsolete, transitive) To abuse verbally, to insult.
Exempel
The Queen may be celebrating her jubilee but the Queen's English Society, which has railed against the misuse and deterioration of the English language, is to fold.
Socrates was brought upon the stage by Aristophanes, and misused to his face: but he laughed, as if it concerned him not […].