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Definition of Ill-treat
1. Verb. Treat badly. "They want to ill-treat the prisoners "; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"
Generic synonyms: Do By, Handle, Treat
Specialized synonyms: Kick Around
Derivative terms: Abuse, Abuser, Abusive, Ill-treatment, Ill-usage, Maltreater, Maltreatment, Mistreatment
Definition of Ill-treat
1. Verb. to treat someone or something badly or unkindly; to abuse or mistreat ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ill-treat
Literary usage of Ill-treat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"... live entirely on animal food; but they are not cannibals; they ill-treat
neither their women nor their old people, and they are monogamous. Education. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Obligations, Or Contracts by Robert Joseph Pothier, William David Evans (1806)
"We ih-,ill treat; i. Of Contracts, which are the mod frequent fource of Obligations.
2. ... ill treat ..."
3. A Dictionary of Saintly Women by Agnes Baillie Cunninghame Dunbar (1905)
"On his return he fell in love with a doctor's wife, named Pacifica, and began to
ill treat ... ill treat ..."
4. Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time: Containing the History by John Henniker Heaton (1879)
"... and joined a most determined scoundrel and murderer named Paddy Curran, who
was hanged at Berrima in 1841 ; this man Curran attempting to ill-treat a ..."
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