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abuse
To inflict physical, sexual, or psychological harm upon
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  1. To inflict physical, sexual, or psychological harm upon
  2. To force sexual activity on; rape or molest.
  3. To use improperly or excessively; misuse:
mistreat
To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.
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  1. To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.
  2. To treat roughly or wrongly.
persecute
To annoy persistently; bother:
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  1. To annoy persistently; bother:
  2. To trouble or annoy constantly
  3. To oppress or harass with ill-treatment, especially because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs.
victimize
To make a victim of, especially:
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  1. To make a victim of, especially:
  2. To injure or kill.
  3. To subject to cruel or harmful treatment
abuse
To inflict physical, sexual, or psychological harm upon
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  1. To inflict physical, sexual, or psychological harm upon
  2. To force sexual activity on; rape or molest.
  3. To use improperly or excessively; misuse:
ill-use
To maltreat.
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  1. To maltreat.
  2. To treat someone badly, cruelly or unkindly.
  3. To treat unfairly, unkindly, or cruelly; use badly; abuse
maltreat
To treat in a rough or cruel way; abuse.
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  1. To treat in a rough or cruel way; abuse.
  2. To treat roughly or unkindly; abuse
mishandle
To treat roughly; maltreat:
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  1. To treat roughly; maltreat:
  2. To handle badly, causing physical injury.
  3. To handle badly or roughly; abuse, maltreat, or mismanage
mistreat
To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.
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  1. To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.
  2. To treat roughly or wrongly.
misuse
To use incorrectly or improperly; misapply
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  1. To use incorrectly or improperly; misapply
  2. To treat badly or harshly; abuse
  3. To mistreat or abuse.
Find another word for ill-treat. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ill-treat, like: abuse, mistreat, persecute, victimize, abuse, hurt, abuse, ill-use, maltreat, mishandle and mistreat.

Sentence Examples

  • They did not plunder or ill-treat the people, but they cared nothing for town life or for agricultural pursuits, and as they passed onward they left the country bare.

  • ill-treat a badger, or to interfere with a badger sett.

  • Their parents, too, do not ill-treat their children.

  • ill-treat a child.

  • This makes it an offense to kill, injure, capture or cruelly ill-treat a badger, or to interfere with a badger sett.

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