mistreat

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ treat

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

mistreat (third-person singular simple present mistreats, present participle mistreating, simple past and past participle mistreated)

1. (transitive) To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.

Translations

treat someone or something roughly or badly

• Dutch: mishandelen (nl)
• Esperanto: mistrakti (eo)
• Finnish: kohdella kaltoin (fi)
• French: maltraiter (fr)
• German: misshandeln (de)
• Haitian Creole: maltrete

• Portuguese: destratar (pt), maltratar (pt)
• Russian: плохо обращаться (ru) (plóxo obraščátʹsja) (also: ду́рно, жесто́ко, etc.)
• Spanish: maltratar (es)
• Swahili: mateso (sw), dhulma (sw)

Anagrams

• martites, teratism