Maltreat

Definition: Maltreat

Maltreat

Verb

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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

Note: Maltreat \Mal*treat"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Maltreated; present participle verb or noun Maltreating.]. (references)

Synonyms: Maltreat

Inexpedience

Maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul; smite; (scourge); do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce, outrage.

Malevolence

Molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at; play the devil with; hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind; maltreat; illtreat, ill-use.

Pain

Maltreat, bite, snap at, assail; smite; (punish).

Crosswords: Maltreat

Albanian

nëpërkëmb (infringe, mistreat), keqtrajtoj (ill treat, ill use, manhandle, mistreat, persecute), keqpërdor (ill treat, misapply, misuse, pull about). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ساء المعاملة, ‏عامل بقسوة (ill treat), ‏خاشن (maul, mishandle, rough). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отнасям се зле към (ill treat), малтретирам (abuse, bully, ill treat, ill use, manhandle, mishandle, mistreat, misuse, rough up, work over). (various references)

Chinese 

虐待 (Abusive, maltreated, Maltreating, maltreatment, mistreatment), 瘐 . (various references)

Czech

týrat (harass). (various references)

Farsi 

بدکارکردن , بدرفتاری کردن (Manhandle, Misbehave, Mistreat). (various references)

Finnish

pahoinpidellä (assault). (various references)

French

maltraiter (manhandle), malmener (manhandle, maul), brutaliser. (various references)

German

misshandeln (abuse, ill treat, maltread, mistreat), mißhandeln (maltread, roughhouse), malträtieren (ill treat), traktieren (deal, deal with, entertain, give a rough time, handle, torment, treat), schlecht behandeln (ill treat, mishandle, mistreat), schinden (drive hard, flay, flog, overwork, punish, work). (various references)

Greek 

κακομεταχειρίζομαι (ill treat, ill use, manhandle, mishandle, mistreat, misuse). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעולל (do evil, perform an evil deed), לעשוק (exploit, maraud, oppress, subdue, subjugate), ל�"תעלל (abuse, ill treat, mistreat), ל�"תעולל. (various references)

Hungarian

rosszul bánik valakivel (ill treat, ill use, mistreat), gyötör (exercise, mortify, nag, obsess, pain, persecute, plague, pother, tantalize, to agonize, to bait, to crucify, to fag, to gnaw, to harry, to lacerate, to maltreat, to obsess, to pain, to persecute, to plague, to rack, to roil, to torment, to wring, wrung), bánt (ail, grieve, offend, to aggrieve, to ail, to annoy, to chagrin, to discommode, to displease, to distress, to injure, to maltreat, to offend). (various references)

Indonesian

menganiaya (agonize, molest, torture). (various references)

Italian

maltrattare (abuse, ill treat, ill use, knock around, manhandle, mishandle, roughhouse). (various references)

Manx

drogh-ghellal (rish) (ill-treat), drogh-ghellal (bad treatment, ill usage, ill-treat, outrage, outrageous). (various references)

Pig Latin

altreatmay.(various references)

Portuguese

maltratar (abuse, bully, fib, ill-treat, ill-use, manhandle, maul, mishandle, mistreat, misuse, mob), espancar (bat, beat, belabor, belabour, clobber, lambaste, larrup, lathe, lather, lay into, maul, paste, pommel, quilt, spank, swinge, thresh, thwack, trounce, wallop, welt, whang, whop). (various references)

Romanian

maltrata (abuse, bedevil, ill treat, ill use, knock about, maul, mishandle, mistreat, misuse), se purta urât (ill treat, kick about, misbehave, pull about). (various references)

Russian 

помыкать (lord it over, order about), плохо обращаться (abuse, ill treat, ill use, mishandle, mistreat), дурно обращаться (ill-treat, misuse). (various references)

Scottish

mìomhaich (abuse). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

maltretirati (ill treat, mistreat), zlostavljati (abuse, ballyrag, bully, molest). (various references)

Spanish

maltratar (abuse, bang about, batter about, ill treat, ill use, knock about, manhandle, maul, mishandle, mistreat, misuse, pull about, punish). (various references)

Swedish

behandla illa (ill treat, ill use, mistreat). (various references)

Turkish

kötü davranmak (abuse, discriminate against smb., ill treat, misdemean, mishandle, mistreat, outrage, ride rough over, rough, serve, snub, tramp down, use smb. ill), hırpalamak (batter, beat up, bruise, ill treat, ill use, jolt, knock about, knock around, maul, misuse, punish, ruffle, work over, worry), eziyet etmek (afflict, agonize, dragoon, excruciate, grind down, grind out, Harry, lead smb. a dance, oppress, pain, persecute, rack, torment, torture, tyrannize, tyrannize over, wrong). (various references)

Ukrainian

погано поводитися (ill treat, ill use, misbehave, misconduct). (various references)

Welsh

baetio (bait). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "maltreat": maltreated, maltreater, maltreaters, maltreating, maltreatment, maltreatments, maltreats. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Maltreat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Malaret, mallaret, Martereau, martlet. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: martlet.

-2 letters: armlet, latter, malate, matter, meatal, ramate, rattle, tamale, tramel.

-3 letters: alarm, alate, alert, altar, alter, areal, armet, artal, artel, attar, lamer, later, latte, malar, mater, matte, metal, ramet, ratal, ratel, realm, reata, talar, taler, tamal, tamer, tatar, tater, tetra, treat.

-4 letters: alae, alar, alma, alme, area, atma, earl, lama, lame, late, lear.

+1 letter: maltreats.

+2 letters: maltreated, maltreater, metatarsal.

+3 letters: apartmental, maltreaters, maltreating, materialist, materiality, matriculate, metatarsals.

+4 letters: arithmetical, departmental, extralimital, extramarital, maltreatment, materialists, matriculated, matriculates, methacrylate, mistranslate, multilateral, multivariate, protonematal, transmutable, ultramontane.

+5 letters: bathymetrical, compartmental, determinantal, immaterialist, immateriality, maltreatments, marketability, materialistic, materialities, melodramatist, methacrylates, misarticulate, mistranslated, mistranslates, permutational, temperamental, terminational, theatricalism, transmittable, ultramontanes.