mistreat

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ treat

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

mistreat (third-person singular simple present mistreats, present participle mistreating, simple past and past participle mistreated)

1. (transitive) To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.

Translations

treat someone or something roughly or badly

• Arabic: بَهْدَلَ‎ (bahdala)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: държа се лошо с (dǎrža se lošo s)
• Catalan: maltractar (ca)
• Cebuano: dagmal, tampalas
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: mishandle
• Dutch: mishandelen (nl)
• Esperanto: mistrakti
• Finnish: kohdella kaltoin
• French: maltraiter (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: misshandeln (de), schinden (de)
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (ganaitjan)
• Greek:

  Ancient: προυσελέω (prouseléō), αἰκίζω (aikízō)

• Haitian Creole: maltrete
• Khmer: ធ្វើបាប (thvəə baap)
• Maori: rurerure, tūkino
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Old English: misbēodan
• Portuguese: destratar (pt), maltratar (pt), judiar (pt)
• Quechua: allquchakuy
• Russian: пло́хо обраща́ться (plóxo obraščátʹsja) (also: ду́рно, жесто́ко, etc.)
• Spanish: maltratar (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: ngược đãi (vi)

See also

• maltreat

Anagrams

• martites, mitrates, teratism