maltreat
verb (used with object)
to treat or handle badly, cruelly, or roughly; abuse.
maltreats
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present tense formof maltreat (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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To a newcomer like Davenant, the experience is a trial that maltreats his body and corrodes his spirit.
From Time Magazine Archive
The young girl pleading God's cause was unreasonable with the old man, as a spoilt child sometimes maltreats its mother.
From Ursula by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
If one boy maltreats another, within school-bounds, or within school-hours, that is a matter for me to settle.
From The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"But confess that your sister maltreats me, after I have tried so hard to please her."
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
Yet I daresay he means well, and I am thoroughly amused with him, except when he maltreats his horse.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
