CHILD ABUSE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the physical or emotional or sexual mistreatment of children
   Hypernyms(s) child abuse is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • maltreatment (what does maltreatment mean?)
   • ill-treatment (what does ill-treatment mean?)
   • ill-usage (what does ill-usage mean?)
   • abuse (what does abuse mean?)