Mistreat: alternatives and connections

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].

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One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].

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Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.

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Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.

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To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to ma…

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To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.

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To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in successio…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.