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单词 maltreatment
释义
maltreatment
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n

Maltreatment is what happens when a person (or animal) is abused or deliberately harmed. If you are concerned with the maltreatment of animals, circuses probably disturb you.
In the old days, some schoolchildren experienced maltreatment at the hands of their teachers, and while it happens less often today, many of them still deal with the maltreatment of playground bullies. Maltreatment of animals has been documented at large factory farms, and laws have been passed to protect them. Maltreatment adds the mal- prefix, meaning "badly," to treatment, "conduct toward someone."
WORD FAMILY
maltreatment: maltreatments+/maltreat: maltreated, maltreater, maltreating, maltreatment, maltreats/maltreater: maltreaters
USAGE EXAMPLES
The abuse or maltreatment of children is against the law.
Washington Times(Dec 14, 2016)
The report says all of the maltreatment deaths were preventable and that 301 of the 768 overall child deaths could have been prevented.
Washington Times(Nov 16, 2016)
A 2013 study of U.S. data suggested that only STDs, rather than all infectious diseases, affected behavior like interpersonal violence, child maltreatment and religious adherence.
Washington Post(Nov 14, 2016)
n cruel or inhumane treatment
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage
child abuse
the physical or emotional or sexual mistreatment of children
child neglect
failure of caretakers to provide adequate emotional and physical care for a child
persecution
the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)
cruelty, inhuman treatment
a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering
impalement
the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture
oppression, subjugation
the act of subjugating by cruelty
pogrom
organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)
rendition
handing over prisoners to countries where torture is allowed
torture, torturing
the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
atrocity, inhumanity
an act of atrocious cruelty
mistreatment
the practice of treating (someone or something) badly
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