ill-treat
See also: illtreat
English
Verb
ill-treat (third-person singular simple present ill-treats, present participle ill-treating, simple past and past participle ill-treated)
- To treat someone or something badly or unkindly; to abuse or mistreat.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 297:
- He would never speak a word, only eat and cry, and she hadn't the heart to strike it or illtreat the youngster either; but somebody taught her a charm to make him speak, and then she found out what kind of a brat he really was.
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to treat someone badly
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