gave black eye (verb) abuse: attack with words
Detalii: abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harmto misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it
Sinonime: bankrupt, bust,
confound, confute, controvert,
cow, cripple, declass,
degrade, demerit, demoralize, demote, disconfirm, dispirit,
disprove, downgrade,
enervate, enfeeble,
humiliate,
impair, impoverish, incapacitate, pauperize, rebut,
reduce,
refute,
ruin,
subdue,
tame, undermine
Antonime: stabilize,
strengthen