0 present participle of ill-treat
1 to treat someone badly, especially by being violent or by not taking care of them:
You will put factories there, you will exploit the labour with the positive design of ill-treating and degrading labour in this country.
He gave details of a small number of occasions when, he alleged, he had witnessed members of staff ill-treating patients.
This inquiry was set up following the conviction for ill-treating patients at the hospital of three persons.
It is of course right that we prevent dogs from ill-treating people.
There can be no political justification for ill-treating people as is happening there.
One must have the name of the officer one is charging with ill-treating or maltreating one.
On the other hand, we read in the newspapers of disgraceful cases of parents, for no reason whatsoever, neglecting or ill-treating their children.
The carter was not actually ill-treating the horse.
