Abusing

Synonyms Bullying, violating, misusing, injuring, hurting, manhandling, harassing, mishandling, molesting, harming, messing over, kicking around, wronging, sandbagging, beating (up), messing (up), torturing, mistreating, oppressing, brutalizing, persecuting, maltreating, ill-treating, taking apart, tormenting, ill-using, outraging, victimizing, working (over), burning, and roughing (up).

Synonyms Attacking, scolding, insulting, assailing, harassing, excoriating, trashing, castigating, lambasting, vituperating, sailing into, reviling, blaspheming, haranguing, disparaging, affronting, whipping, beating up on, lighting into, vilifying, slurring, chastising, rebuking, bad-mouthing, aspersing, lacing (into), putting down, slamming, criticizing, blasting, savaging, cursing, bashing, jumping (on), scathing, tying into, berating, belaboring, reprimanding, potshotting, belittling, slandering, harrying, libelling, execrating, profaning, libeling, chiding, imprecating, traducing, fulminating, blackguarding, and lashing (out).

Synonyms Misusing, misapplying, profaning, corrupting, misemploying, desecrating, perverting, prostituting, degrading, twisting, mismanaging, and debasing.

Synonyms Exploiting, manipulating, milking, imposing (on or upon), cheating, capitalizing (on), mistreating, cashing in (on), bleeding, fleecing, commercializing, jerking around, using, leveraging, playing (on or upon), pimping, walking on, trading on, working, overcharging, sticking, soaking, skinning, and commodifying.