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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.
Definition 2024
maltreat
maltreat
English
Verb
maltreat (third-person singular simple present maltreats, present participle maltreating, simple past and past participle maltreated)
- To treat badly, to abuse. [from 18th c.]
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 217:
- he received a telegram from the prime minister ordering that on no account were Yacef and Zohra Drif to be maltreated in any way.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 217:
Translations
treat badly
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