maltreat
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /malˈtɹiːt/
maltreat (maltreats, present participle maltreating; 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:
- German: misshandeln
- Portuguese: maltratar
- Russian: пло́хо обраща́ться
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