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ill-treating

ill-treating is the present participle and gerund of ill-treat.

Meaning of ill-treat

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

Questions about ill-treating

What is ill-treating the present participle and gerund of?
Ill-treating is the present participle and gerund of ill-treat.

Words near ill-treating in the dictionary

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

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