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Mistreat synonyms

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harm
To do harm to:
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  1. To do harm to:
  2. To do harm to; hurt, damage, etc.
injure
To offend (one's feelings, pride, etc.); wound
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  1. To offend (one's feelings, pride, etc.); wound
  2. To cause physical harm to; hurt:
  3. To be unjust to; wrong
wrong
To treat (someone) unjustly or injuriously.
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  1. To treat (someone) unjustly or injuriously.
  2. In a wrong course or direction:
  3. In a wrong manner; mistakenly or erroneously:
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-treat
To treat unkindly, cruelly, or unfairly; harm; abuse; maltreat
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  1. To treat unkindly, cruelly, or unfairly; harm; abuse; maltreat
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
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 mistreat. In this page you can discover 11 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for mistreat, like: harm, injure, wrong, abuse, abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mishandle, misuse and help.

Sentence Examples

  • Drivers can mistreat or beat up their cars and ignore or delay necessary maintenance and repairs until their car quits running, so age makes a difference when searching for a used car.

  • If you mistreat your employees or stockholders, you run the risk that a couple million people may know about it before nightfall, thanks to Twitter, MySpace, Facebook and citizen journalists.

  • Avoid Puppy Mills - disreputable breeding farms that mistreat animals by confining them in inadequate kennels, under poor conditions just to create additional litters.

  • mistreat prisoners than the Americans are.

  • mistreat women.

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