maltreat
verb🔊/ˌmælˈtriːt/
🔊/ˌmælˈtriːt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they maltreat | 🔊/ˌmælˈtriːt/ 🔊/ˌmælˈtriːt/ |
| he / she / it maltreats | 🔊/ˌmælˈtriːts/ 🔊/ˌmælˈtriːts/ |
| past simple maltreated | 🔊/ˌmælˈtriːtɪd/ 🔊/ˌmælˈtriːtɪd/ |
| past participle maltreated | 🔊/ˌmælˈtriːtɪd/ 🔊/ˌmælˈtriːtɪd/ |
| -ing form maltreating | 🔊/ˌmælˈtriːtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌmælˈtriːtɪŋ/ |
- maltreat somebody/something
to be very cruel to a person or an animal 虐待 Officers were accused of maltreating prisoners. 官员被指控虐待囚犯。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMaltreat is used with these nouns as the object:- child
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French maltraiter.