Deliberate severe and repeated injury to one domestic partner by the other.
1 After her husband abused her for several years he took another wife and kicked her out into the streets.
3 If the husband abused his privileges, the wife was obliged to bear the insult in silence, being helpless to avenge it.
4 She spared no effort to set his mind at ease, protesting that she did not care a rap how furiously her husband abused her.
5 I guess it's been one of my secrets that my husband abused his team something awful, and I hated them, was really scared of them.
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