mistreat
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- Rhymes: -iːt
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mistreat (third-person singular simple present mistreats, present participle mistreating, simple past and past participle mistreated)
- (transitive) To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.
- (transitive, medicine) To administer an incorrect treatment to a patient.
- 1989 April 8, John Dooley, “Syphilis and AIDS: What's the Connection?”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
- The syphilis that Catapano and other AIDS-syphilis theorists are especially concerned about may develop when repeated treponeme infections are not treated, or, more commonly, are 'mistreated with penicillin.
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treat someone or something roughly or badly
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