MALTREATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maltreated mean? 

• MALTREATED (adjective)
  The adjective MALTREATED has 1 sense:

1. subjected to cruel treatment

  Familiarity information: MALTREATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALTREATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subjected to cruel treatment

Synonyms:

abused; ill-treated; maltreated; mistreated

Context example:

an abused wife

Similar:

battered (exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury)

 Context examples 

Sometimes he glanced over the magazines and newspapers to see how "Ephemera" was being maltreated.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then he realised that this was Mit-sah, one of his own particular gods, who was being maltreated.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I endeavoured to apologize for the accident, but it was evident that these books which I had so unfortunately maltreated were very precious objects in the eyes of their owner.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That, marching him constantly up and down by the collar (as if he had been taking too much laudanum), she, at those times, shook him, rumpled his hair, made light of his linen, stopped his ears as if she confounded them with her own, and otherwise tousled and maltreated him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Laurie threw back his head, and laughed so heartily at this attack, that the felt hat fell off, and Jo walked on it, which insult only afforded him an opportunity for expatiating on the advantages of a rough-and-ready costume, as he folded up the maltreated hat, and stuffed it into his pocket.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)