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All mistreat synonyms

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verb mistreat

  • harm — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
  • maltreat — to treat or handle badly, cruelly, or roughly; abuse: to maltreat a prisoner.
  • abuse — Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.
  • brutalize — If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
  • misuse — wrong or improper use; misapplication.
  • molest — to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
  • maul — a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
  • rough up — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
  • backbite — to talk spitefully about (an absent person)
  • injure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
  • roughhouse — rough, disorderly playing, especially indoors.
  • wound — the act of winding.
  • trash — anything worthless, useless, or discarded; rubbish.
  • rip — to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
  • chop — If you chop something, you cut it into pieces with strong downward movements of a knife or an axe.
  • wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
  • wax — a fit of anger; rage.
  • outrage — an act of wanton cruelty or violence; any gross violation of law or decency.
  • total — constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
  • bash — A bash is a party or celebration, especially a large one held by an official organization or attended by famous people.
  • ill-treat — to treat badly; maltreat; abuse.
  • mess up — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
  • shake up — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • bung up — a stopper for the opening of a cask.
  • dump on — to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
  • kick around — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
  • knock around — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
  • push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • mishandle — to handle badly; maltreat: to mishandle a dog.
  • knock about — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
  • ill-use — to treat badly, unjustly, cruelly, etc.
  • oppress — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
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