When anyone hurts you physically. It can include a lot of things, but if they basically make contact with your body in any way that hurts or makes you uncomfortable, it can probably go in the category.

physical abuse is when someone rapes you or physically beat you or any other physically hurt to your body. mental abuse is when someone downs you all the time telling you negative things about yourself and calling you bad names all the time. like you're no good and you will never be anything in life, and cursing at you all the time. or comparing you to someone else negatively. any thing bad or negative is an abuse.