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Webster 1913 Edition

maltreat

mal-treat′

(măl-trēt′)

,

Verb.

T.

[

imp. & p. p.

Maltreated

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Maltreating

.]

[

Mal-

+

treat

: cf. F.

maltraiter

.]

To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.