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What does ill-usage mean?

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He died at Halsted poorhouse from the effects of the ill-usage.
All the feuds of countless generations, all the hatreds and cruelties of their narrow history, all the memories of ill-usage and persecution were to be purged that day.
She had been subjected to contumely and cross-questoning and ill-usage through the whole evening.
They carried her into France to calice against her will, and with much barbarous ill-usage made her marry Clifford.
You put up with his ill-usage and infidelities until he befouled your home.

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