| 1H6 IV.v.41 | [John Talbot to Talbot] your renowned name; shall flight abuse it? |
| AC V.ii.43 | [Proculeius to Cleopatra] Do not abuse my master's bounty [also: sense 2] |
| H8 I.iii.28 | [Lovell to Lord Chamberlain, of French-influenced Englishmen] Abusing better men than they can be / Out of a foreign wisdom |
| KL V.i.11.2 | [Edmund to Regan, of her suspicion] That thought abuses you |
| Oth IV.ii.13 | [Emilia to Othello, of his way of thinking] it doth abuse your bosom |
| Per I.ii.38 | [Helicanus to Lords] They do abuse the king that flatter him |