What is another word for mistreat?
820 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ mɪstɹˈiːt], [ mɪstɹˈiːt], [ m_ɪ_s_t_ɹ_ˈiː_t]
"Mistreat" is a word that means treating someone or something unfairly, cruelly, or in a harmful way. If you're looking for synonyms of the word, there are a few options you can explore. Some of the most commonly used alternatives include "abuse," "ill-treat," "maltreat," and "persecute." Other options include "oppress," "harass," "bully," "torment," "exploit," and "victimize." Each of these words can be used in different contexts and has slightly different connotations. When choosing which synonym to use, consider the tone of your writing, the specific situation you are discussing, and the intended meaning you want to convey.
Synonyms for Mistreat:
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• abuse- banged up ,
- banging up ,
- bangs up ,
- bunging up ,
- bungs up ,
- de file ,
- de filed ,
- de files ,
- de filing ,
- de-file ,
- de-filed ,
- de-files ,
- de-filing ,
- mis treat ,
- mis treated ,
- mis treating ,
- mis treats ,
- mis-treat ,
- mis-treated ,
- mis-treating ,
- mis-treats ,
- roughhoused ,
- spoil .
- DE Form ,
- de base ,
- de based ,
- de basing ,
- de cay ,
- de cays ,
- de compose ,
- de composed ,
- de composes ,
- de composing ,
- de face ,
- de faced ,
- de faces ,
- de facing ,
- de formed ,
- de forming ,
- de forms ,
- de grade ,
- de graded ,
- de grades ,
- de grading ,
- de mean ,
- de meaning ,
- de means ,
- de moralize ,
- de moralized ,
- de moralizes ,
- de moralizing ,
- de spoil ,
- de spoiled ,
- de spoiling ,
- de spoils ,
- de-base ,
- de-based ,
- de-basing ,
- de-cay ,
- de-cays ,
- de-compose ,
- de-composed ,
- de-composes ,
- de-composing ,
- de-face ,
- de-faced ,
- de-faces ,
- de-facing ,
- de-form ,
- de-formed ,
- de-forming ,
- de-forms ,
- de-grade ,
- de-graded ,
- de-grades ,
- de-grading ,
- de-mean ,
- de-meaning ,
- de-means ,
- de-moralize ,
- de-moralized ,
- de-moralizes ,
- de-moralizing ,
- de-spoil ,
- de-spoiled ,
- de-spoiling ,
- de-spoils ,
- dis figure ,
- dis figured ,
- dis figures ,
- dis figuring ,
- dis grace ,
- dis graced ,
- dis graces ,
- dis gracing ,
- dis honor ,
- dis honored ,
- dis honoring ,
- dis honors ,
- dis-figure ,
- dis-figured ,
- dis-figures ,
- dis-figuring ,
- dis-grace ,
- dis-graced ,
- dis-graces ,
- dis-gracing ,
- dis-honor ,
- dis-honored ,
- dis-honoring ,
- dis-honors ,
- greased palm ,
- greases palm ,
- greasing palm ,
- re duce ,
- re duces ,
- re-duce ,
- re-duces ,
- under mined ,
- under mining ,
- under-mined ,
- under-mining .
- ill treat ,
- over burden ,
- over burdened ,
- over burdening ,
- over burdens ,
- over tax ,
- over taxes ,
- over taxing ,
- over worked ,
- over working ,
- over works ,
- over-burdened ,
- over-burdening ,
- over-tax ,
- over-taxed ,
- over-taxes ,
- over-taxing ,
- over-worked ,
- over-works .
- mis handle ,
- mis manager ,
- mis managers ,
- mis-handle ,
- mis-manager ,
- mis-managers ,
- mismanagered ,
- mismanagering .
- are incompetent ,
- are inefficient ,
- art incompetent ,
- art inefficient ,
- being incompetent ,
- being inefficient ,
- flubbing ,
- goofed up ,
- goofing up ,
- goofs up ,
- is incompetent ,
- is inefficient ,
- made a hash of ,
- made a mess of ,
- made hash of ,
- made mess of ,
- make mess of ,
- makes a hash of ,
- makes a mess of ,
- makes hash of ,
- makes mess of ,
- making a hash of ,
- making a mess of ,
- making hash of ,
- making mess of ,
- maladministered ,
- maladministering ,
- maladministers ,
- mis applied ,
- mis applies ,
- mis apply ,
- mis applying ,
- mis conduct ,
- mis conducted ,
- mis conducting ,
- mis conducts ,
- mis direct ,
- mis directed ,
- mis directing ,
- mis directs ,
- mis employ ,
- mis employed ,
- mis employing ,
- mis employs ,
- mis govern ,
- mis governed ,
- mis governing ,
- mis governs ,
- mis handled ,
- mis handles ,
- mis handling ,
- mis manage ,
- mis managed ,
- mis manages ,
- mis managing ,
- mis-applied ,
- mis-applies ,
- mis-apply ,
- mis-applying ,
- mis-conduct ,
- mis-conducted ,
- mis-conducting ,
- mis-conducts ,
- mis-direct ,
- mis-directed ,
- mis-directing ,
- mis-directs ,
- mis-employ ,
- mis-employed ,
- mis-employing ,
- mis-employs ,
- mis-govern ,
- mis-governed ,
- mis-governing ,
- mis-governs ,
- mis-handled ,
- mis-handles ,
- mis-handling ,
- mis-manage ,
- mis-managed ,
- mis-manages ,
- mis-managing ,
- misemployed ,
- misemploying ,
- misemploys ,
- misgoverns ,
- over look ,
- over looked ,
- over looks ,
- over-look ,
- over-looking ,
- over-looks ,
- puts foot in ,
- putting foot in ,
- shoot foot ,
- shoot in foot ,
- shoot oneself foot ,
- shooting foot ,
- shooting in foot ,
- shooting oneself foot ,
- shooting oneself in foot ,
- shoots foot ,
- shoots in foot ,
- shoots oneself foot ,
- shoots oneself in foot ,
- shot foot ,
- shot in foot ,
- shot oneself foot ,
- shot oneself in foot ,
- was incompetent ,
- was inefficient ,
- wast incompetent ,
- wast inefficient ,
- were incompetent ,
- were inefficient ,
- wert incompetent ,
- wert inefficient .
- handled roughly ,
- handles roughly ,
- handling roughly ,
- mis used ,
- mis using ,
- mis-used ,
- mis-using ,
- pro fane ,
- pro fanes ,
- pro-fane ,
- pro-fanes .
- boiled over ,
- boils over ,
- burns up ,
- burnt up ,
- de flower ,
- de flowered ,
- de flowering ,
- de flowers ,
- de-flower ,
- de-flowered ,
- de-flowering ,
- de-flowers ,
- did violence to ,
- didst violence to ,
- does violence to ,
- doest violence to ,
- doeth violence to ,
- doing violence to ,
- dost violence to ,
- doth violence to ,
- firing up ,
- in cense ,
- in censed ,
- in censes ,
- in-cense ,
- in-censed ,
- in-censes ,
- in-censing ,
- kick a row ,
- kick row ,
- kick up row ,
- kicked a row ,
- kicked row ,
- kicked up a row ,
- kicked up row ,
- kicking a row ,
- kicking row ,
- kicking up a row ,
- kicking up row ,
- kicks a row ,
- kicks row ,
- kicks up a row ,
- kicks up row ,
- made hit ceiling ,
- made hit the ceiling ,
- make hit ceiling ,
- makes hit ceiling ,
- makes hit the ceiling ,
- making hit ceiling ,
- making hit the ceiling ,
- out rage ,
- out raged ,
- out rages ,
- out raging ,
- out-rage ,
- out-raged ,
- out-rages ,
- out-raging ,
- reached boiling point ,
- reaches boiling point ,
- reaching boiling point .
- co loring ,
- co-loring ,
- dis tort ,
- dis torts ,
- dis-tort ,
- dis-torts ,
- doctored up ,
- doctoring up ,
- doctors up ,
- mis construe ,
- mis construed ,
- mis construes ,
- mis construing ,
- mis interpreted ,
- mis interpreting ,
- mis interprets ,
- mis represent ,
- mis represented ,
- mis representing ,
- mis represents ,
- mis state ,
- mis stated ,
- mis states ,
- mis-construe ,
- mis-construed ,
- mis-construes ,
- mis-construing ,
- mis-interpreted ,
- mis-interprets ,
- mis-represent ,
- mis-represented ,
- mis-representing ,
- mis-represents ,
- mis-state ,
- mis-stated ,
- mis-states ,
- mis-stating ,
- phonied up ,
- phonies up ,
- phonying up .
- be devil ,
- be deviled ,
- be deviling ,
- be devilled ,
- be devilling ,
- be devils ,
- be-devil ,
- be-deviled ,
- be-deviling ,
- be-devilled ,
- be-devilling ,
- be-devils ,
- dis tress ,
- dis tressed ,
- dis tresses ,
- dis-tress ,
- dis-tressed ,
- dis-tresses ,
- drave bananas ,
- drave the wall ,
- drave up the wall ,
- drave up wall ,
- drave wall ,
- drive the wall ,
- drive up wall ,
- drive wall ,
- drives bananas ,
- drives the wall ,
- drives up the wall ,
- drives up wall ,
- drives wall ,
- driving bananas ,
- driving the wall ,
- driving up the wall ,
- driving up wall ,
- driving wall ,
- drove bananas ,
- drove the wall ,
- drove up the wall ,
- drove up wall ,
- drove wall ,
- gave a hard time ,
- give hard time ,
- gives a hard time ,
- gives hard time ,
- giving hard time ,
- play cat mouse ,
- played cat and mouse ,
- played cat mouse ,
- playing cat and mouse ,
- playing cat mouse ,
- plays cat and mouse ,
- plays cat mouse ,
- puts through wringer ,
- putting through wringer ,
- rub salt wound ,
- rubbed salt in wound ,
- rubbed salt wound ,
- rubbing salt in wound ,
- rubbing salt wound ,
- rubs salt in wound ,
- rubs salt wound .
- bad mouth ,
- be rate ,
- be rated ,
- be rates ,
- be rating ,
- be-rate ,
- be-rated ,
- be-rates ,
- be-rating ,
- called down ,
- calls down ,
- caluminated ,
- caluminates ,
- caluminating ,
- de cried ,
- de cries ,
- de cry ,
- de crying ,
- de fame ,
- de famed ,
- de fames ,
- de faming ,
- de-cried ,
- de-cries ,
- de-cry ,
- de-crying ,
- de-fame ,
- de-famed ,
- de-fames ,
- de-faming ,
- dumping on ,
- dumps on ,
- gave a black eye ,
- gave black eye ,
- gives a black eye ,
- giving a black eye ,
- mudslinged ,
- mudslings ,
- put whammy on ,
- puts a whammy on ,
- puts whammy on ,
- putting a whammy on ,
- putting whammy on ,
- ragged on ,
- ragging on ,
- rags on ,
- re vile ,
- re-vile ,
- ripped up ,
- ripping up ,
- rips up ,
- skins alive ,
- spake ill of ,
- speaking ill of ,
- speaks ill of ,
- spoke ill of ,
- tare in to ,
- tare into ,
- tear in to ,
- tearing in to ,
- tearing into ,
- tears in to ,
- tears into ,
- tore in to ,
- tore into ,
- torn in to ,
- torn into .
Other synonyms:
- Roust ,
- abandon ,
- alienate ,
- batter ,
- betray ,
- dehumanize ,
- do to ,
- fuck around ,
- fuck over ,
- fuck with ,
- grind down ,
- gun for ,
- hit out ,
- hit with ,
- jack around ,
- laugh at ,
- mess around ,
- neglect ,
- objectify ,
- oppress ,
- piss around ,
- presume on ,
- put through ,
- reject ,
- shit on ,
- shove around ,
- stamp on ,
- step on ,
- taunt ,
- trample ,
- trespass on ,
- tyrannize ,
- upstage ,
- victimize ,
- visit on .
- devalue ,
- discriminate ,
- dump ,
- penalize ,
- persecute ,
- prey on ,
- shortchange .
- buffet .
Other relevant words:
- Boning ,
- Deviled ,
- Deviling ,
- Devilled ,
- Devilling ,
- HOSED ,
- Illtreat ,
- Martyred ,
- Martyring ,
- Misapplied ,
- Misemploy ,
- Misgoverned ,
- Roughening ,
- Vilified ,
- abuse ,
- badmouth ,
- bang up ,
- be incompetent ,
- be inefficient ,
- blistered ,
- boil over ,
- boiling over ,
- boned ,
- brutalize ,
- bullyrag ,
- bung up ,
- bunged up ,
- burn up ,
- burned up ,
- burning up ,
- call down ,
- calling down ,
- caluminate ,
- corrupt ,
- do violence to ,
- drive bananas ,
- drive up the wall ,
- dump on ,
- dumped on ,
- excruciate ,
- fire up ,
- fires up ,
- flubbed ,
- give a black eye ,
- give black eye ,
- goof up ,
- grease palm ,
- heckle ,
- heckling ,
- hosing ,
- ill-treat ,
- ill-use ,
- illuse ,
- infect ,
- jinxed ,
- kick up a row ,
- knock ,
- knock about ,
- knock around ,
- kos ,
- make a hash of ,
- make a mess of ,
- make hash of ,
- make hit the ceiling ,
- maladminister ,
- maltreat ,
- manhandle ,
- mar ,
- martyrize ,
- martyrized ,
- martyrizes ,
- martyrizing ,
- misconducted ,
- misconducting ,
- misdirect ,
- misdirected ,
- misdirecting ,
- misdirects ,
- misgovern ,
- misgoverning ,
- misuse ,
- molest ,
- mudsling ,
- muff ,
- outrage ,
- over-burden ,
- over-wrought ,
- overtax ,
- overtaxed ,
- overtaxes ,
- overtaxing ,
- pervert ,
- play cat and mouse ,
- pollute ,
- put a whammy on ,
- put foot in ,
- put through wringer ,
- rag on ,
- ravaged ,
- reach boiling point ,
- rip up ,
- rotted ,
- rough up ,
- roughen ,
- roughened ,
- roughens ,
- roughhouse ,
- roughhousing ,
- rub salt in wound ,
- ruin ,
- shoot oneself in foot ,
- skin alive ,
- skinned alive ,
- skinning alive ,
- slap around ,
- speak ill of ,
- spoils ,
- spoilt ,
- tear into ,
- torment ,
- torture ,
- torturing ,
- vilify ,
- voodooed ,
- voodooing ,
- warp ,
- whacked ,
- whacking ,
- wrong .
- Disserve ,
- HIT ,
- Maltreating ,
- afflict ,
- affront ,
- aggrieve ,
- agonize ,
- asperse ,
- assault ,
- backbite ,
- bash ,
- beat ,
- befoul ,
- belabour ,
- bewitch ,
- blackguard ,
- blight ,
- bruise ,
- brutalise ,
- bully ,
- calumniate ,
- chop ,
- clobber ,
- condemn ,
- crucify ,
- cuff ,
- curse ,
- damage ,
- defile ,
- deprave ,
- despoil ,
- destroy ,
- disadvantage ,
- discredit ,
- disfigure ,
- dishonour ,
- distress ,
- do evil ,
- do wrong ,
- do wrong by ,
- doom ,
- envenom ,
- exclaim ,
- harass ,
- harm ,
- harrow ,
- hex ,
- hurt ,
- ignore ,
- impair ,
- impose upon ,
- insult ,
- jinx ,
- kick around ,
- malign ,
- malodorous ,
- mangle ,
- maul ,
- menace ,
- offend ,
- pace ,
- pain ,
- paw ,
- poison ,
- prejudice ,
- pummel ,
- push around ,
- rack ,
- rap ,
- rape ,
- rip ,
- rough ,
- savage ,
- scathe ,
- shake up ,
- shout ,
- slap ,
- slight ,
- step ,
- strike ,
- taint ,
- take advantage of ,
- threaten ,
- total ,
- trash ,
- tread ,
- treat ,
- treat roughly ,
- trounce ,
- violate ,
- wax ,
- wound ,
- wreak havoc ,
- wreak havoc on .
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How to use "Mistreat" in context?
One of the most negative words people can say to another person is "mistreat." This word implies that the person being mistreated is not being given the proper respect that they deserve. It also implies that the person doing the mistreating is not worried about the other person's feelings. When someone is mistreated, it can cause them to feel uncomfortable and devalued.
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