From mal- + treat, after French maltraiter.
maltreat (third-person singular simple present maltreats, present participle maltreating, simple past and past participle maltreated)
- To treat badly, to abuse. [from 18th c.]
1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 217:he received a telegram from the prime minister ordering that on no account were Yacef and Zohra Drif to be maltreated in any way.
treat badly
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: малтретирам (maltretiram)
- Cebuano: dagmal, tampalas, maltrato
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 虐待 (zh) (nüèdài)
- Dutch: mishandelen (nl)
- Esperanto: turmenti (eo)
- Finnish: kohdella kaltoin
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: misshandeln (de)
- Greek: κακομεταχειρίζομαι (el) (kakometacheirízomai), κακοποιώ (el) (kakopoió)
- Ancient: προυσελέω (prouseléō), αἰκίζω (aikízō), ἀτέμβω (atémbō)
- Japanese: 虐げる (ja) (shiitageru), 差別する (ja) (sabetsu suru), 冷遇する (ja) (reigū suru)
- Khmer: ធ្វើបាប (thvəə baap)
- Latin: violō
- Maori: rurerure, tunuhuruhuru, tūkino
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Portuguese: maltratar (pt)
- Russian: пло́хо обраща́ться (plóxo obraščátʹsja)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: zulmetmek (tr)
- Vietnamese: bạc đãi (vi), ngược đãi (vi)
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