Don't mistreat small animals!
Source: tatoeba (2166200)
Mistreat
//mɪsˈtɹiːt//
Synonyms for "mistreat" (85 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (26)
Related words (42)
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Translations
39 translations across 27 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- αἰκίζω verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
- προυσελέω verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Arabic
1 entries- بَهْدَلَ verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Bulgarian
1 entries- държа се лошо с verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Catalan
1 entries- maltractar verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Cebuano
2 entries- dagmal verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
- tampalas verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 治療不當 /治疗不当 verb (administer an incorrect treatment to a patient)
- 虐待 verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Danish
1 entries- mishandle verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Dutch
1 entries- mishandelen verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Esperanto
1 entries- mistrakti verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Finnish
2 entries- hoitaa väärin verb (administer an incorrect treatment to a patient)
- kohdella kaltoin verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
French
1 entries- maltraiter verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Galician
1 entries- maltratar verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
German
2 entries- misshandeln verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
- schinden verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌲𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- maltrete verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Interlingua
1 entries- maltratar verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Italian
1 entries- maltrattare verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Khmer
1 entries- ធ្វើបាប verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Latin
1 entries- malo tractare verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Māori
2 entries- rurerure verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
- tūkino verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Old English
1 entries- misbēodan verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Portuguese
3 entries- destratar verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
- judiar verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
- maltratar verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Quechua
1 entries- allquchakuy verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Romanian
1 entries- maltrata verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Russian
1 entries- пло́хо обраща́ться verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Spanish
4 entries- brear verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
- lagarear verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
- maltratar verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
- sopapear verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ngược đãi verb (treat someone or something roughly or badly)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
They didn't mistreat me.
Source: tatoeba (2272113)
Tom is said to mistreat his wife.
Source: tatoeba (9283680)
Adriano continued to mistreat Rima.
Source: tatoeba (11729926)
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