abuse vs verbal

abuse

noun
  • Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies. 

  • Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. 

  • Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment. 

  • Misuse; improper use; perversion. 

  • Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis. 

verb
  • To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly. 

  • To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually. 

  • To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert 

  • To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage. 

verbal

noun
  • Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding. 

  • A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals. 

  • A spoken confession given to police. 

adj
  • Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text. 

  • Of or relating to words. 

  • Capable of speech. 

  • Used to form a verb. 

  • Word for word. 

  • Derived from, or having the nature of a verb. 

  • Consisting of words only. 

  • Expressly spoken rather than written; oral. 

verb
  • To induce into fabricating a confession. 

How often have the words abuse and verbal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )