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ill-treat

ill-treat verb: to treat someone or something badly or unkindly; to abuse or mistreat.

Verb

ill-treat (third-person singular simple present ill-treats, present participle ill-treating, simple past and past participle ill-treated)

  1. To treat someone or something badly or unkindly; to abuse or mistreat.
    • He would never speak a word, only eat and cry, and she hadn't the heart to strike it or illtreat the youngster either; but somebody taught her a charm to make him speak, and then she found out what kind of a brat he really was.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 297
    Synonyms:
    mistreat

ill-treat meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

ill-treat in Tamil

கொடுமைப்படுத்து, சீர்கேடாய நடத்து, முறைகேடாக நடத்து

ill-treat in Malayalam

ഹിംസിക്കുക, ദ്രോഹിക്കുക, ഹീനമായി പെരുമാറുക, അവഹേളിക്കുക

ill-treat in Kannada

ತೊಂದರೆ ಕೊಡು, ನೋಯಿಸು

Synonyms of ill-treat

Forms of ill-treat

third-person singular presentill-treats
present participleill-treating
past participleill-treated
pastill-treated

Origin of ill-treat

From ill + treat.

Questions about ill-treat

What does ill-treat mean?
Ill-treat means to treat someone or something badly or unkindly; to abuse or mistreat.
What is ill-treat in Tamil?
Ill-treat in Tamil is கொடுமைப்படுத்து, சீர்கேடாய நடத்து, முறைகேடாக நடத்து. See Ill-treat meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ill-treat?
Ill-treat is a verb.
What is the past tense of ill-treat?
The past tense of ill-treat is ill-treated.

Words near ill-treat in the dictionary

  1. ill-temperedly
  2. ill-temperedness
  3. ill-thought-out
  4. ill-thrift
  5. ill-timed
  6. ill-treat
  7. ill-treated
  8. ill-treating
  9. ill-treatment
  10. ill-treats
  11. ill-usage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ill-treat (page history and authors); ill-treat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ill-treat (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ill-treat (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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