- someone who abuses
- Abuse is the improper usage or treatment for a bad purpose, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit, physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, sexual assault, violation, rape, unjust practices; wrongful practice or custom; offense; crime, or otherwise verbal aggression. ...
- "Abuser" refers to the individual who is inflicting the abuse. Other terms include "batterer" or "perpetrator."
- Someone who carries out the tactics of domestic violence. Also referred to as a batterer.
- A person who abuses and treats others poorly.
- A person who uses drugs in ways that threaten his health or impair his social or economic functioning.
- An adult who perpetrates a pattern of coercive tactics which can include physical, psychological, sexual, economic, and emotional abuse against an adult intimate partner, with the goal of establishing and maintaining power and control over the victim. (1)
- A citizen of the United States or LPR who physically, mentally or emotionally abuses a non-citizen residing in the United States with whom he/she is involved in an intimate relationship.