maltreat

maltreat

English

Etymology

From mal- +‎ treat, after French maltraiter.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /malˈtɹiːt/

Verb

maltreat (third-person singular simple present maltreats, present participle maltreating, simple past and past participle maltreated)

1. 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.

Related terms

• mistreat

Translations

treat badly

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: малтретирам (maltretiram) Cebuano: dagmal, tampalas, maltrato Chinese: Mandarin: 虐待 (zh) (nüèdài) Dutch: mishandelen (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kohdella kaltoin Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: misshandeln (de) Greek: κακομεταχειρίζομαι (el) (kakometacheirízomai), κακοποιώ (el) (kakopoió) Ancient: προυσελέω (prouseléō), αἰκίζω (aikízō), ἀτέμβω (atémbō) Japanese: 虐げる (shiitageru), 差別する (ja) (sabetsu suru), 冷遇する (ja) (reigū suru) Khmer: ធ្វើបាប (thvəə baap) Latin: violō Maori: rurerure, tunuhuruhuru, tūkino Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: maltratar (pt) Russian: пло́хо обраща́ться (plóxo obraščátʹsja) Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: bạc đãi (vi), ngược đãi (vi)