MALTREATING Synonyms

• the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something

• noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others

• cruel or inhumane treatment

• a rude expression intended to offend or hurt

• improper or excessive use

• treat badly

• change the inherent purpose or function of something

• use foul or abusive language towards

• use wrongly or improperly or excessively

• make a mess of, destroy or ruin

• manage badly or incompetently

• treat badly

• come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

• cause to suffer

• cause to suffer

• unbearable physical pain

• extreme mental distress

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

• a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

• a severe affliction

• the act of harassing someone

• torment emotionally or mentally

• treat cruelly

• subject to torture

• rule a country as a tyrant

• rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner

• make a victim of

• punish unjustly

• deprive of by deceit

• cruel or inhumane treatment

• a rude expression intended to offend or hurt

• improper or excessive use

• treat badly

• change the inherent purpose or function of something

• use foul or abusive language towards

• use wrongly or improperly or excessively

• treat badly

• treat badly

• treat badly

• any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal

• the distance covered by a step

• the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down

• support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway

• relative position in a graded series

• a short distance

• the sound of a step of someone walking

• a musical interval of two semitones

• a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface

• a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed

• a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance

• shift or move by taking a step

• put down or press the foot, place the foot

• cause (a computer) to execute a single command

• treat badly

• furnish with steps

• move with one's feet in a specific manner

• walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner

• place (a ship's mast) in its step

• measure (distances) by pacing

• move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation