mistreat
pronunciation
How to pronounce mistreat in British English:
UK [ˌmɪsˈtri:t]
How to pronounce mistreat in American English:
US [mɪsˈtrit]
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- Verb:
- treat badly
Word Origin
- mistreat (v.)
- mid-15c.; see mis- (1) + treat (v.). Related: Mistreated; mistreating.
Example
- 1. Please do not judge and mistreat us just because of what happened tonight .
- 2. When your shepherds were with us , we did not mistreat them , and the whole time they were at carmel nothing of theirs was missing .
- 3. A small boy , abandoned by his father , left to care for his dying mother , grows up into a complete fraud who gets rich by teaching men how to mistreat women .