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der Missbrauch

B2 Noun frequency rank #3,166

What Missbrauch means

Noun

  1. abuse, cruel treatment (not in the sense of “verbal abuse, insult”)
  2. misuse, wrong use

Forms

der Missbrauch · die Missbräuche

Plural: Missbräuche

Pronunciation

Missbrauch in a sentence

Die Beratungsstelle hilft Opfern von Missbrauch anonym.

The counselling centre helps victims of abuse anonymously.

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Missbrauch is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #3,166 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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