mistreat
/mɪsˈtɹiːt/
mistreat verb: to treat someone, or something roughly or badly.
Verb
mistreat (third-person singular simple present mistreats, present participle mistreating, simple past and past participle mistreated)
- To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.
- To administer an incorrect treatment to a patient.
- The syphilis that Catapano and other AIDS-syphilis theorists are especially concerned about may develop when repeated treponeme infections are not treated, or, more commonly, are 'mistreated with penicillin.1989 April 8, John Dooley, “Syphilis and AIDS: What's the Connection?”, in Gay Community News, page 8
mistreat meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
mistreat in Tamil
- மோசமாக, முரட்டுத்தனமாக, முறைகேடாக நடத்து, கொடுமைப்படுத்து
mistreat in Urdu
- بدسلوکی کرنا
mistreat in Malayalam
- abuse, ill-treat, maltreat
- ഹീനമായി പെരുമാറുക, അവഹേളിക്കുക, ക്രൂരമായി പെരുമാറുക, ഭേദ്യം ചെയ്യുക, മോശമായി പെരുമാറുക, ദ്രോഹിക്കുക
mistreat in Kannada
- ಕೆಟ್ಟದಾಗಿ ನಡೆಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಅಯೋಗ್ಯವಾಗಿ ನಡೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಹೀನೈಸು, ಕೀಳ್ಗಾಣು
More languagesFewer languages
- mistreat in Arabic
- بَهْدَلَ bahdala
- mistreat in Vietnamese
- ngược đãi
Examples of mistreat in a sentence
- The real problem is the fact that the industry mistreats its workers.
- He was mistreated while in police custody.
- But the cafes are staffed by Chinese workers who mistreat their clientele, Uyghurs there said.
Synonyms of mistreat
Forms of mistreat
| third-person singular present | mistreats |
|---|---|
| present participle | mistreating |
| past participle | mistreated |
| past | mistreated |
Origin of mistreat
From mis- + treat.
Words formed from mistreat
Words that rhyme with mistreat
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- entreat
- fleet
- retreat
- treat
- complete
- conceit
- repeat
- concrete
- discrete
- bittersweet
- suite
- cheat
- cleat
- deceit
- greet
- unseat
- compete
- defeat
- delete
- effete
- elite
- escheat
- indiscrete
- leet
- pleat
- skeet
- sleet
- accrete
- beet
- bleat
- gleet
- ifrit
- incomplete
- overeat
- overheat
- petite
- replete
- superheat
- teat
- tweet
- wheat
- yeet
- Bereshit
- Bow Street
- Crete
- discreet
- downbeat
- jeet
Questions about mistreat
- What does mistreat mean?
- Mistreat means to treat someone, or something roughly or badly.
- What is mistreat in Tamil?
- Mistreat in Tamil is மோசமாக, முரட்டுத்தனமாக, முறைகேடாக நடத்து. See Mistreat meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is mistreat?
- Mistreat is a verb.
- How do you pronounce mistreat?
- Mistreat is pronounced /mɪsˈtɹiːt/.
- What is the past tense of mistreat?
- The past tense of mistreat is mistreated.
Words near mistreat in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mistreat (page history and authors); mistreat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mistreat (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mistreat (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); mistreat (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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