ILL-TREATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ill-treated mean? 

• ILL-TREATED (adjective)
  The adjective ILL-TREATED has 1 sense:

1. subjected to cruel treatment

  Familiarity information: ILL-TREATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILL-TREATED (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 

But the old king was very angry when he saw how his daughter behaved, and how she ill-treated all his guests; and he vowed that, willing or unwilling, she should marry the first man, be he prince or beggar, that came to the door.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength: if no one can be found willing to burden her or himself with such a fat, weak, puffy, useless thing, you cry out that you are ill-treated, neglected, miserable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But as I was out of all fear of being ill-treated under the protection of so great and good an empress, the ornament of nature, the darling of the world, the delight of her subjects, the phoenix of the creation, so I hoped my late master’s apprehensions would appear to be groundless; for I already found my spirits revive, by the influence of her most august presence.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)