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ill-treatment - 3 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | hurt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury; damage |
| Synonyms: | ache, blow, bruise, chop, detriment, disadvantage, disaster, discomfort, disservice, distress, down, gash, harm, ill, loss, mark, mischief, misfortune, nick, ouch, outrage, pain, pang, persecution, prejudice, ruin, scratch, sore, suffering, wound, wrong, black and blue, boo-boo, ill-treatment, soreness |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, cure, healing, help, remedy |
| Main Entry: | misuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse; wrong application |
| Synonyms: | barbarism, corruption, desecration, dissipation, exploitation, harm, injury, maltreatment, perversion, prostitution, solecism, waste, abusage, catachresis, cruel treatment, ill-treatment, malapropism, misapplication, misemployment, mistreatment, misusage, profanation, rough handling, squandering |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
| Main Entry: | persecution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affliction |
| Synonyms: | annoyance, banishment, bashing, exile, expulsion, galling, imprisonment, infliction, killing, maltreatment, massacre, murder, oppression, provoking, teasing, torment, torture, torture, ill-treatment, mistreatment, pestering |
| Antonyms: | help, stimulation, succor |
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