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maletreat

maletreat is the obsolete form of maltreat.

Meaning of maltreat

Verb

maltreat (third-person singular simple present maltreats, present participle maltreating, simple past and past participle maltreated)

  1. To treat badly, to abuse.
    • he received a telegram from the prime minister ordering that on no account were Yacef and Zohra Drif to be maltreated in any way.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books, published 2006, page 217
    Synonyms:
    brutalize

Forms of maletreat

third-person singular presentmaletreats
present participlemaletreating
past participlemaletreated
pastmaletreated

Questions about maletreat

What is maletreat the obsolete form of?
Maletreat is the obsolete form of maltreat.

Words near maletreat in the dictionary

  1. malesubs
  2. maletolt
  3. maletolts
  4. maletote
  5. maletotes
  6. maletreat
  7. maletreated
  8. maletreating
  9. maletreats
  10. Maletta
  11. Malettas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maletreat (page history and authors); maltreat (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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