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Meanings of ill-treat in English

Portuguese
abusar
Catalan
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Spanish
abusar

Treat badly.

abusar
Usage of ill-treat in English
1
Tell me that an Englishman has dared to ill-treat an American woman.
The Way We Live Now
2
They would not dare ill-treat a colored cadet or a white one.
Henry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point / Autobiog...
3
Now there is an outcry that the Albanians of Kosovo ill-treat the Slavs.
Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
4
But why suppose anything so monstrous; men do not ill-treat children.
A Perilous Secret
5
Perhaps he was only a scoundrel-perhapshe would not ill-treat her.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
6
Who protects the cow from destruction by Hindus when they cruelly ill-treat her?
Freedom's Battle / Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings ...
7
As long as she doesn't ill-treat our boy-Godbe with them.'
Master and Man
8
He's giving people-whitepeople-licenseto ill-treat blacks if they catch them committing crimes.
The clouds beneath the sun
9
As long as she doesn't ill-treat my boy, let be.
The death of ivan ilyich: and, master and man
10
One does not generally ill-treat those who are in a position to bestow favors.
The Mystery of the Four Fingers
11
On the other hand they fire on our ambulances and ill-treat our ambulance nurses.
New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginn...
12
It is cowardly of you to ill-treat and upbraid me.
The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood
13
Should he ill-treat her, her relations had the power to take her from him.
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
14
Have you no feelings that you ill-treat a man's best friend in that way?
War and the Weird
15
He might do something terrible if they ill-treat Sheila.
The Freelands
16
I am not aware that I ill-treat him, returned the shoemaker, looking up with surprise.
Finger Posts on the Way of Life
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Ill-treat through the time