exploit

action, performance; doing; perpetration; exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor (exertion); praxis, execution; procedure (conduct); handicraft; business; agency (power at work)., deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force (display); feat, exploit; achievement (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy (plan)., actor (doer).

do, perform, execute; achieve (complete); transact, enact; commit, perpetrate, inflict; exercise, prosecute, carry on, work, practice, play., employ oneself, ply one's task; officiate, have in hand (business) [more]; labor; be at work; pursue a course; shape one's course (conduct) [more]., act, operate; take action, take steps; strike a blow, lift a finger, stretch forth one's hand; take in hand (undertake); put oneself in motion; put in practice; carry into execution (complete); act upon., be an actor; take a part in, act a part in, play a part in, perform a part in; participate in; have a hand in, have a finger in the pie; have to do with; be a party to, be a participator in; bear a hand, lend a hand; pull an oar, run in a race; mix oneself up with (meddle)., be in action; come into operation (power at work).

doing; acting; in action; in harness; on duty; in operation.

in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of; red-handed, in flagrante delicto; while one's hand is in.

misuse, misusage, misemployment, misapplication, misappropriation., abuse, profanation, prostitution, desecration; waste.

misuse, misemploy, misapply, misappropriate., desecrate, abuse, profane, prostitute: waste [more]; overtask, overtax, overwork: squander [more]., cut blocks with a razor, employ a steam engine to crack a nut; catch at a straw.

misused.

use; employ, employment; exercise, exercitation; application, appliance; adhibition, disposal; consumption; agency (physical); usufruct; usefulness; benefit; recourse, resort, avail., [Conversion to use] utilization, service, wear., [Way of using] usage.

use, make use of, employ, put to use; put in action, put in operation, put in practice; set in motion, set to work., ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try., render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of., fall back upon, make a shift with; make the most of, make the best of., use up, swallow up; consume, absorb, expend; tax, task, wear, put to task.

in use; used; well-worn, well-trodden., useful; subservient (instrumental).