"ill-treat" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "ill + treat",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ill + treat.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ill-treats",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ill-treating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ill-treated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ill-treated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "ill-treat (third-person singular simple present ill-treats, present participle ill-treating, simple past and past participle ill-treated)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 297",
          "text": "He would never speak a word, only eat and cry, and she hadn't the heart to strike it or illtreat the youngster either; but somebody taught her a charm to make him speak, and then she found out what kind of a brat he really was.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To treat someone or something badly or unkindly; to abuse or mistreat."
      ],
      "id": "en-ill-treat-en-verb-TA~PhBbH",
      "links": [
        [
          "treat",
          "treat"
        ],
        [
          "badly",
          "badly"
        ],
        [
          "unkindly",
          "unkindly"
        ],
        [
          "abuse",
          "abuse"
        ],
        [
          "mistreat",
          "mistreat"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mistreat"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "anamahtjan",
          "sense": "to treat someone badly",
          "word": "𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽"
        },
        {
          "alt": "ぎゃくたいする",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "gyakutai-suru",
          "sense": "to treat someone badly",
          "word": "虐待する"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to treat someone badly",
          "word": "tunuhuruhuru"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to treat someone badly",
          "word": "tūkino"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to treat someone badly",
          "word": "rurerure"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ill-treat"
}

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        "2": "ill",
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      },
      "expansion": "ill + treat",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ill + treat.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ill-treats",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ill-treating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ill-treated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ill-treated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ill-treat (third-person singular simple present ill-treats, present participle ill-treating, simple past and past participle ill-treated)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 297",
          "text": "He would never speak a word, only eat and cry, and she hadn't the heart to strike it or illtreat the youngster either; but somebody taught her a charm to make him speak, and then she found out what kind of a brat he really was.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To treat someone or something badly or unkindly; to abuse or mistreat."
      ],
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        [
          "treat",
          "treat"
        ],
        [
          "badly",
          "badly"
        ],
        [
          "unkindly",
          "unkindly"
        ],
        [
          "abuse",
          "abuse"
        ],
        [
          "mistreat",
          "mistreat"
        ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "mistreat"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "anamahtjan",
      "sense": "to treat someone badly",
      "word": "𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ぎゃくたいする",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gyakutai-suru",
      "sense": "to treat someone badly",
      "word": "虐待する"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to treat someone badly",
      "word": "tunuhuruhuru"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to treat someone badly",
      "word": "tūkino"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to treat someone badly",
      "word": "rurerure"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ill-treat"
}