Synonyms for ill-treat
- verb
Definitions
- v. 1
To treat someone or something badly or unkindly; to abuse or mistreat.
Related words
- Other spellings
- illtreat
Forms
- Past participle
- ill-treated
e.g. ill-treated → ill-used, abused, mistreated, injured…
Choose the right word
To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- step One step further, and you will fall into an abyss.
- injure You have to be careful so as not to injure yourself.
- mistreat Adriano continued to mistreat Rima.
By length
- 4 letters
- step1
- 5 letters
- abuse2
- 6 letters
- misuse2, injure2
- 8 letters
- mistreat2, maltreat
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (abuse2 = 2 syllables).