Some people who suffer terrible abuse as children retreat into their own heads.

He utterly denied the validity of the terrible emotional abuse you'd suffered?

How could one possibly build a wall high enough to keep out the knowledge of such a terrible abuse?

Let's base our latest fashion collection on someone who has suffered terrible abuse.

They acknowledged that the scandals arose from widespread and terrible abuses.

They are threatened by poverty, inadequate education, even terrible physical and mental abuse.

In the vast majority of cases such people have suffered consistent, terrible abuse as children.

On the radio, I say, It's impossible to describe how terrible the abuse was.

"In my practice, I've seen some terrible abuses of land," he said.

And it is a terrible abuse of power.