Ill-treating

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of ill-treat form-of, gerund, participle, present

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mistreatabusebatterbruisebuffetdamage

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"I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race."

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