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What is another word for
maltreating
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Exploiting someone for one's personal gain
Present participle for to treat badly, cruelly, or violently
Present participle for to cause anguish or distress to, typically with ill-treatment
Present participle for to put down or control by cruelty or force
Present participle for to mistreat or do an injustice to
Present participle for to cause pain through mistreatment
Present participle for to lash or strike repeatedly, especially with a long pliable instrument
Present participle for to make a concerted or violent attack on
Present participle for to mistreat someone
Present participle for to cause damage or harm to
Present participle for to put at a disadvantage or treat as undesirable
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Exploiting someone for one's personal gain
using
taking advantage of
exploiting
manipulating
abusing
beguiling
controlling
deceiving
defrauding
fleecing
mistreating
patronising
UK
patronizing
US
ripping off
targeting
targetting
victimising
UK
profiting from
victimizing
US
cashing in on
cheating
ill-using
jerking around
leveraging
misusing
preying on
using for one's own ends
stepping on
trifling with
imposing on
playing with
treating lightly
bleeding
walking all over
capitalizing on
playing for a sucker
playing on
milking
taking liberties with
swindling
sucking dry
playing upon
walking over
imposing upon
taking for a ride
preying upon
doing an injustice to
treating unfairly
making use of
ill-treating
wringing
squeezing
intimidating
working
enslaving
trespassing
pimping
putting one over on
living off the backs of
making unfair claims on
withholding rights from
profiteering
benefitting from
crossing the line
overcharging
presuming on
dumping on
taking unfair advantage of
taking for granted
imposing
charging too much
molesting
hoodwinking
harassing
tricking
hounding
blackmailing
conning
terrorizing
US
attacking
picking on
terrorising
UK
oppressing
giving the business
bullying
extorting
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to treat badly, cruelly, or violently
abusing
mistreating
manhandling
mishandling
bullying
hurting
harming
misusing
brutalising
UK
brutalizing
US
injuring
mauling
beating
hitting
persecuting
molesting
striking
damaging
victimising
UK
victimizing
US
neglecting
torturing
punishing
ill-treating
ill-using
kicking around
treating badly
knocking about
messing over
knocking around
beating up
treating roughly
roughing up
handling roughly
doing over
wronging
oppressing
taking apart
harassing
tormenting
battering
messing up
misemploying
prostituting
attacking
assaulting
roughhousing
shaking up
dumping on
cutting up
harrying
marring
outraging
assailing
ruining
totalling
totaling
doing wrong
pushing around
interfering with
banging up
bunging up
bashing
thrashing
slapping around
beating up on
duffing up
bashing up
working over
beating the living daylights out of
treating harshly
making someone suffer
more ❯
“No parents or other adults should exploit, abuse or
maltreat
children.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause anguish or distress to, typically with ill-treatment
persecuting
tormenting
torturing
plaguing
afflicting
abusing
besetting
racking
mistreating
harrowing
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
agonising
UK
agonizing
US
excruciating
anguishing
cursing
injuring
wronging
hounding
besieging
crucifying
molesting
aggrieving
punishing
martyring
pursuing
ill-treating
picking on
discriminating against
inflicting pain on
inflicting suffering on
getting the knife into
sticking the knife into
wounding
brutalizing
US
beating
scourging
whipping
lacerating
maiming
smiting
mangling
brutalising
UK
causing pain to
working over
giving someone the works
distressing
troubling
worrying
paining
mortifying
breaking
causing suffering to
causing agony to
inflicting anguish on
martyrizing
putting on the rack
hurting
bloodying
traumatizing
US
discommoding
inconveniencing
disserving
incommoding
crossing up
lashing out at
traumatising
UK
misusing
ill-using
doing violence to
trampling on
putting down
treating roughly
harming
laying a finger on
causing injury to
harassing
bothering
oppressing
stressing
vexing
burdening
irritating
rending
straining
taxing
blighting
annoying
trying
exasperating
wringing
causing trouble to
grieving
disturbing
stabbing
piercing
perturbing
devastating
facing
confronting
buffeting
buffetting
convulsing
searing
shaking
tearing
giving someone grief
shattering
crushing
rocking
gutting
cutting up
perplexing
hurting deeply
tearing at
tearing to shreds
tearing to pieces
killing
causing discomfort to
giving pain to
upsetting
irking
pestering
harrying
ailing
affecting
gripping
pressing
striking
visiting
taking
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to put down or control by cruelty or force
oppressing
subjugating
tyrannising
UK
tyrannizing
US
dominating
persecuting
crushing
tormenting
subjecting
torturing
abusing
plaguing
harassing
enslaving
hegemonizing
wronging
harrying
hounding
coercing
besetting
exploiting
overthrowing
scourging
aggrieving
distressing
ruling
forcing
mastering
annoying
chastening
despotizing
encumbering
handicapping
outraging
pressing
riding
saddling
straining
taxing
trampling
vexing
worrying
controlling
ill-treating
keeping down
treating harshly
holding sway over
grinding down
tyrannizing over
ruling over
holding down
beating down
trampling on
riding roughshod over
walking all over
trampling underfoot
picking on
putting upon
weighing heavy upon
putting screws to
ruling with a rod of iron
ruling with an iron hand
mistreating
victimizing
US
bullying
terrorizing
US
intimidating
victimising
UK
terrorising
UK
suppressing
pushing around
repressing
browbeating
domineering
overpowering
overwhelming
menacing
threatening
putting down
pushing about
kicking around
leaning on
subduing
overbearing
cowing
brutalizing
US
brutalising
UK
needling
hassling
ill-using
having a down on
having it in for
discriminating against
giving a hard time
messing over
making things hot for someone
getting at
punishing unfairly
punishing
excruciating
overcoming
crucifying
afflicting
molesting
domineering over
weakening
destroying
scaring
manhandling
hectoring
frightening
misusing
showing ill will towards
bulldozing
mishandling
kicking about
treading on
bossing about
bossing around
playing the heavy with
conquering
steamrollering
subordinating
gaining mastery over
bringing someone to their knees
gaining ascendancy over
gaining control of
demonizing
US
using
beating
immolating
demonising
UK
stacking the deck
having your knife into
bringing to heel
rendering helpless
rendering incapable
rendering powerless
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to mistreat or do an injustice to
wronging
hurting
abusing
mistreating
injuring
oppressing
harming
persecuting
wounding
maligning
damaging
dishonouring
UK
misrepresenting
offending
outraging
dishonoring
US
cheating
discrediting
vilifying
aggrieving
trespassing
ill-treating
ill-using
doing an injustice to
offending against
dumping on
doing a disservice to
doing injury to
doing wrong to
taking advantage of
bad mouthing
imposing upon
sinning against
doing the dirty on
distressing
causing harm to
doing wrong by
treating badly
doing an injury to
upsetting
annoying
irritating
paining
afflicting
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause pain through mistreatment
hurting
abusing
exploiting
humiliating
manipulating
oppressing
spiting
victimising
UK
victimizing
US
violating
antagonising
UK
antagonizing
US
belittling
ill-treating
insulting
mistreating
mocking
provoking
taunting
tormenting
torturing
abasing
aggravating
deriding
misusing
wronging
dishonoring
US
dishonouring
UK
harassing
harrowing
harrying
molesting
persecuting
doing an injustice to
dumping on
ill-using
imposing on
martyring
martyrizing
putting down
taking advantage of
stepping on the toes of
giving no quarter
going for jugular
hitting where one lives
laying a bad trip on
Verb
▲
Present participle for to lash or strike repeatedly, especially with a long pliable instrument
flailing
flogging
whipping
thrashing
lashing
tanning
birching
beating
whaling
switching
scourging
flagellating
battering
hiding
wallopping
walloping
striking
hitting
leathering
bashing
horsewhipping
pummelling
UK
pummeling
drubbing
caning
clubbing
slashing
smacking
knocking
cowhiding
strapping
threshing
rawhiding
whacking
clouting
thwacking
flaying
socking
larruping
larrupping
slugging
welting
lamming
smashing
belaboring
US
belabouring
UK
giving someone a hiding
beating the living daylights out of
giving someone a good hiding
lambasting
pounding
thumping
belting
buffeting
mauling
buffetting
hammering
pelting
licking
assaulting
pommeling
slogging
bludgeoning
whopping
whapping
basting
lacing
slating
tromping
pommelling
whupping
paddling
batting
fibbing
lathering
currying
bunging up
roughing up
working over
punching out
messing up
punching
cudgelling
UK
cudgeling
US
breaking
slapping
bruising
clobbering
abusing
attacking
rapping
spanking
ramming
swatting
mashing
banging
punishing
boxing
raining blows on
doing over
knocking around
knocking about
decking
cracking
cuffing
chinning
biffing
tonking
tapping
bopping
chastising
plugging
drumming
knocking into the middle of next week
laying into
laying one on
filling in
trouncing
pasting
crushing
assailing
manhandling
beating up on
duffing up
bashing up
beating to a pulp
mistreating
doing
beating up
slamming
smiting
whomping
busting
clipping
swiping
clocking
clapping
bonking
nailing
bobbing
zapping
tagging
boffing
lacing to
defeating
trashing
letting someone have it
giving someone a drubbing
routing
overwhelming
slaughtering
annihilating
sloshing
quilting
besting
waxing
donging
swinging
marmalizing
creaming
pulverizing
US
burying
drawing
forging
thudding
demolishing
destroying
massacring
worsting
flattening
murdering
smoking
pitching into
shellacking
crucifying
rolling
tanking
smothering
lighting to
skunking
owning
bombing
dusting
sticking one on
killing
chastening
pulverising
UK
winning a resounding victory over
walking all over
hitting hard
running rings around
taking to the cleaners
bringing someone to their knees
turning inside out
striking down
walking over
wiping the floor with
defeating utterly
making mincemeat of
taking a stick to
blowing away
blowing out of the water
beating hollow
getting the better of
triumphing over
blowing out
snowing under
blistering
handling
driving
striping
bumping
impacting
lacerating
malleating
mutilating
shaking
jerking
whisking
fluttering
flapping
feruling
flopping
hitting repeatedly
thumping on
knocking on
bearing down
coshing
brutalizing
US
contusing
tearing into
brutalising
UK
wearing out
paddlewhacking
setting on
weighing into
fustigating
breaking face
leaning on
taking care of
blackjacking
putting in the hospital
tanning one's hide
aiming blows at
warming someone's seat
dusting someone's britches
striking with a stick
beating with a stick
whamming
giving someone a beating
giving someone a good beating
giving someone a good drubbing
raining blows upon
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a concerted or violent attack on
assailing
attacking
assaulting
besetting
charging
rushing
storming
belaboring
US
belabouring
UK
accosting
besieging
turning on
invading
raiding
striking
trashing
bushwhacking
impugning
jumping
siccing
blitzing
busting
encountering
mugging
pouncing on
setting upon
beating up
setting about
setting on
tearing into
coming at
descending on
descending upon
falling on
flying at
getting stuck into
jumping on
laying into
lighting to
pitching into
falling upon
going in on
having at
hitting out at
lacing to
lashing out at
launching an attack on
letting fly at
making an assault on
pouncing upon
wading into
weighing into
working over
having a go at
launching oneself at
rounding on
sailing into
letting someone have it
going for
Verb
▲
Present participle for to mistreat someone
messing around
mistreating
ill-treating
messing with
fooling with
treating badly
toying with
treating unfairly
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause damage or harm to
damaging
harming
injuring
marring
spoiling
ruining
defacing
hurting
impairing
blemishing
devastating
wrecking
vitiating
blighting
crushing
defiling
mangling
smashing
demolishing
desecrating
gutting
shattering
trashing
undoing
vandalising
UK
vandalizing
US
weakening
annihilating
bloodying
breaking
compromising
crabbing
destroying
disrupting
endamaging
flawing
ravaging
sabotaging
staining
tainting
tarnishing
totalling
totaling
blotting
disfeaturing
razing
smirching
sullying
abusing
burning
corrupting
cracking
denting
dirtying
discolouring
UK
discoloring
US
disintegrating
dismantling
gnawing
infecting
knocking
lacerating
rotting
rusting
scathing
scorching
scratching
splitting
tearing
undermining
wronging
bleaching
contaminating
corroding
crossing up
fading
polluting
stabbing
banging up
smashing up
tampering with
wearing away
doing damage to
playing havoc with
wreaking havoc on
playing merry hell with
driving a nail into the coffin of
delivering a blow to
Verb
▲
Present participle for to put at a disadvantage or treat as undesirable
disfavoring
disfavouring
discriminating
treating differently
showing prejudice
putting at a disadvantage
judging
segregating
hating
victimising
UK
victimizing
US
treating as inferior
showing bias
setting apart
treating unfairly
demonstrating intentionality
singling out
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