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
We have, however, hitherto seen only how the single bourgeois maltreats the proletariat upon his own account.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Florence Kelley
She imperiously bids man sustain and reproduce himself, and this is one of the places where in the very act of obedience he wounds and maltreats her.
From Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
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
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
