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Mistreat
Answer for the clue "Mistreat ", 5 letters:
abuse
Alternative clues for the word abuse
Word definitions for abuse in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "improper practice," from Old French abus (14c.), from Latin abusus (see abuse (v.)). Earlier in Middle English was abusion "wicked act or practice, shameful thing, violation of decency" (early 14c.), "an insult" (mid-14c.).
Usage examples of abuse.
He might abuse her in some other way, such as by inserting his fingers or an object to demonstrate his control and contempt, and in fact, we soon learned of the vaginal abrasions and bruising.
To what but a cultivation of the mechanical arts in a degree disproportioned to the presence of the creative faculty, which is the basis of all knowledge, is to be attributed the abuse of all invention for abridging and combining labour, to the exasperation of the inequality of mankind?
Whether Walter West let him watch while he abused young girls, or whether he encouraged his son to take his place, or whether, in fact, he abused him directly Frederick West was never to reveal.
An elderly family friend had abused her when she was six, and she had been indecently assaulted in a Gloucester park at the age of thirteen.
West calmly and relentlessly, abused his daughter until she was unable to refuse.
West systematically abused his daughter, as determined to subjugate her as he had been to subjugate Rosemary Letts.
The child, no matter how abused, still wanted to love and admire her parents, and particularly her father.
The horrifying truth is that she was almost certainly kept captive in the cellar for several days, and regularly tortured and abused, until she was finally killed.
Gagged, tied and hanging naked by her ankles, Lynda Gough was abused sexually by both Frederick and Rosemary West.
So, though Rosemary West may have physically abused him, neither she nor her husband were anxious to relinquish Steven McAvoy once he was in her hands.
Indeed, it is more than likely that the first person to be suspended from the beams in the cellar of 25 Cromwell Street and sexually abused was Rosemary West herself, and that she and her husband then decided to subject other people to the experience.
The Wests clearly made sure Carol Ann Cooper could neither move nor cry out when they abused her.
It is certain that Carol Ann Cooper was abused sexually by both Frederick and Rosemary West.
But there can be no doubt that the Wests made sure she could neither move nor cry out when they abused her.
It seems likely that she, too, was mercilessly abused just as her predecessors had been abused, with the addition of new and even more horrifying variations.