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third-person singular simple present maltreats, present participle maltreating, simple past and past participle maltreated
To treat badly, to abuse. quotations examples
he received a telegram from the prime minister ordering that on no account were Yacef and Zohra Drif to be maltreated in any way.
1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 217