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Definition of maltreat

treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"

Similar Words: mistreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat

Hyponyms: kick around

Derivational Morphology: maltreatment, ill-treatment, ill-usage, abuse, abuser, maltreater, mistreatment

Anagrams: Tremella

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