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Definition: Mistreat |
MistreatVerb1. Treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mistreat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
Synonyms: MistreatSynonyms: abuse (v), ill-treat (v), ill-use (v), maltreat (v). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | The one to mistreat her (I Cry; performing artist: Ja Rule) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | El Salvador | Contrary to the past, there were no allegations during the year from children's rights advocates that police abuse and mistreat street children. (references) |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | Officials who mistreat prisoners are punished routinely. (references) |
Germany | The Government investigates abuses and prosecutes police who mistreat persons in custody. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Australia | Indigenous people believed that police systematically mistreat them; however, there are no government statistics to confirm this perception. (references) |
Political Economy | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Police continued to abuse and physically mistreat detainees and other citizens. (references) |
Turkmenistan | Security forces continued to beat and otherwise mistreat suspects and prisoners. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Taiwan | The CLA urged employers not to mistreat foreign workers, and employers are subject to the same penalties for mistreating foreign workers as for mistreating citizen workers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mistreat" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 54.55% of the time. "Mistreat" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 54.55% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 36.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mistreat | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mistreat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nëpërkëmb (infringe, maltreat), keqtrajtoj (ill treat, ill use, maltreat, manhandle, persecute). (various references) | |
Arabic | عامل معاملة سيئة, أساء المعاملة (mishandle), أساء التصرف (misbehave, misconduct). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | малтретирам (abuse, bully, ill treat, ill use, maltreat, manhandle, mishandle, misuse, rough up, work over), държа се зле към. (various references) | |
Czech | špatnì zacházet s (mishandle). (various references) | |
Farsi | دشنام دادن (Misname), بدرفتاری کردن (Maltreat, Manhandle, Misbehave). (various references) | |
French | maltraiter (mishandle, misuse). (various references) | |
German | schlecht behandeln (ill treat, maltreat, mishandle). (various references) | |
Greek | κακομεταχειρίζομαι (ill treat, ill use, maltreat, manhandle, mishandle, misuse). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"תעלל (abuse, ill treat, maltreat), ל "ו' לא כשור". (various references) | |
Hungarian | rosszul kezel (to mishandle, to mismanage, to mistreat), rosszul bánik valakivel (ill treat, ill use, maltreat). (various references) | |
Italian | maltrattare, bistrattare, trattare male, strapazzare (ill treat, pull about, scramble, take no care, tire oneself out), bistrattare (ill treat, maul). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | istreatmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | maltratar (abuse, bully, fib, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, manhandle, maul, mishandle, misuse, mob). (various references) | |
Romanian | maltrata (abuse, bedevil, ill treat, ill use, knock about, maltreat, maul, mishandle, misuse). (various references) | |
Russian | плохо обращаться (abuse, ill treat, ill use, maltreat, mishandle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | maltretirati (ill treat, maltreat), maltertirati (manhandle), zlostaviti (abuse, molest). (various references) | |
Spanish | maltratar (abuse, bang about, batter about, ill treat, ill use, knock about, maltreat, manhandle, maul, mishandle, misuse, pull about, punish). (various references) | |
Swedish | behandla illa (ill treat, ill use, maltreat). (various references) | |
Turkish | kötü davranmak (abuse, discriminate against smb., ill treat, maltreat, misdemean, mishandle, outrage, ride rough over, rough, serve, snub, tramp down, use smb. ill), hor kullanmak (batter, ill treat, ill use, mishandle, misuse). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | неправильно поводитися. (various references) | |
Welsh | cam-drin (abuse, ill-treat). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mistreat": mistreated, mistreating, mistreatment, mistreatments, mistreats. (additional references) | |
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"Mistreat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bistrita, mestret, misereatur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mistreat" (pronounced mi'strē"t) |
| 5 | -s t r ē" t | Street. |
| 4 | -t r ē" t | retreat, treat. |
| 3 | -r ē" t | concrete, discreet, discrete, excrete, greet, indiscreet, secrete. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: teratism. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: artiest, artiste, attires, etatism, imarets, iratest, maestri, matters, metrist, misrate, ratites, smartie, smatter, striate, tastier. | |
-2 letters: aimers, airest, armets, armies, artist, attire, imaret, master, maters, matres, matter, mattes, merits, misate, miseat, mister, miters, mitres, ramets, ramies, ratite, remits, samite, satire, sitter, smiter, stater, strait, strati, stream, striae, tamers, tamest, taster, taters, terais. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: admitters, estimator, martinets, metatarsi, mistreats, remittals, teratisms. | |
+2 letters: aftertimes, altimeters, dermatitis, estimators, impetrates, intimaters, magistrate, martensite, maturities, meditators, microstate, micturates, misstarted, mistreated, monetarist, reestimate, retransmit, smattering, sterigmata, streamiest, taximeters, terminates, traumatise. | |
+3 letters: altimetries, antimatters, arithmetics, astrometric, autoerotism, harvesttime, hematocrits, impartments, littermates, magistrates, marionettes, marquisette, martensites, martensitic, materialist, maternities, meritocrats, microstates, mistreating, mithridates, monetarists, mortalities, reestimated, reestimates, remittances, remotivates, restimulate, retransmits, smatterings, steamfitter, suprematist, tautomerism, taxidermist, terminators, termitaries, thermotaxis, transmitted, transmitter, traumatised, traumatises, traumatizes, tryptamines. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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