Ill-treat

Definitions: Ill-treat

Ill-treat

Verb

1. Treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers".

Date "ill-treat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Ill-treat

Synonyms: abuse (v), ill-use (v), maltreat (v), mistreat (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inexpedience	Maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul; smite; (scourge); do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce, outrage.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ill-treat

Specialty definitions using "ill-treat": Hawkubites. (references)

Language		Translations for "ill-treat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		pidellä pahoin (treat cruelly, use roughly), kohdella huonosti (treat badly). (various references)

Manx		cur drogh-chorrym da. (various references)

Pig Latin		ill-treatay.(various references)

Russian		плохо (badly, nasty, poorly), дурно обращаться (maltreat, misuse). (various references)

Swedish		misshandla (ill treat, ill use, knock about, maltreat, maul, misuse, rough up). (various references)

Thai		ทำร้ายหรือทารุ�" (คนหรือสัตว์). (various references)

Welsh		cam-drin (abuse, mistreat). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: literal, littler, tallier, tertial.
	-2 letters: attire, latter, litter, little, ratite, rattle, retail, retial, rillet, tailer, taille, taller, tallit, telial, tiller, tilter.
	-3 letters: alert, alter, ariel, artel, atilt, ileal, iller, irate, later, latte, liter, litre, ratel, relit, retia, rille, taler, tater, telia, terai, tetra, tiler, titer, title, titre, trail, trait, treat, trial, trill, trite.
	-4 letters: airt, alit, aril, earl, ilea, lair, lari, late, lati, leal, lear, liar, lier, lilt, lira, lire, lite, rail, rale, rate, real, rial, riel, rile, rill, rite, tael, tail, tale, tali, tall, tare, tart, tate, teal, tear, teat, tela, tell, tier, tile, till, tilt, tire, tirl, tret.
	-5 letters: ail, air, ait, ale, all, alt, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, ell, era, eta, ill, ire, lar, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lit, rat, rei, ret, ria, tae, tar, tat, tea, tel, tet, tie, til, tit.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-l-r-t-t"
	+2 letters: alliterate, illiterate, illustrate, literalist, literality, literately, trilateral, triliteral, tripletail.
	+3 letters: alliterated, alliterates, artillerist, bristletail, crystallite, illiterates, illustrated, illustrates, literalists, ratatouille, reallotting, triliterals, tripletails, ultraviolet.
	+4 letters: alliterating, alliteration, alliterative, alterability, articulately, artillerists, bristletails, clatteringly, crystallites, extralimital, flatteringly, illiterately, illustrative, interpellate, interstellar, intertidally, intertillage, intolerantly, literalistic, literalities, metallurgist, multilateral, preallotting, ratatouilles, reticulately, theatrically, tolerability, torrentially, tranquillest, trifoliolate, ultraleftism, ultraleftist, ultrarealist, ultraviolent, ultraviolets, verticillate.
	+5 letters: alliterations, alternatively, centripetally, collaterality, detrimentally, filterability, heterothallic, intercultural, interdentally, intermetallic, interpellated, interpellates, interpellator, intertillages, intrathecally, metallurgists, multiparticle, multispectral, multiterminal, obstetrically, straitlacedly, strategically, teratological, terrestrially, territorially, theoretically, triliteralism, ultrafiltrate, ultraleftisms, ultraleftists, ultrarealists.
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