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
Poor man, why is Poseidon so wroth with thee that he maltreats thee thus?
From Stories from the Odyssey by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
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
"But confess that your sister maltreats me, after I have tried so hard to please her."
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
