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| Main Entry: | mistreat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | treat badly or wrongly |
| Synonyms: | abuse, backbite, bash, chop, harm, injure, maltreat, maul, mess up, misuse, molest, outrage, rip, rough up, roughhouse, shake up, total*, trash*, wax*, wound, wrong, brutalize, bung up, do wrong, dump on, give black eye, handle roughly, kick around, knock around, push around |
| Antonyms: | coddle, favor, pamper, pet, please, satisfy, treat well |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mistreat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | harm |
| Synonyms: | abuse, injure, maltreat, wrong, ill-treat |
| Main Entry: | corrupt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pervert; pollute |
| Synonyms: | abase, abuse, adulterate, bastardize, blemish, blight, bribe, contaminate, damage, debase, debauch, decay, decompose, deface, defile, deform, degrade, demean, demoralize, deprave, depreciate, despoil, disfigure, disgrace, dishonor, fix, harm, hurt, impair, infect, injure, lower, lure, maltreat, mar, mistreat, misuse, outrage, pull down, putrefy, ravage, reduce, rot, ruin, spoil, square, stain, suborn, subvert, taint, undermine, violate, vitiate, warp, waste, animalize, grease palm, ill-treat |
| Antonyms: | better, chasten, cleanse, dignify, improve, purify |
| Main Entry: | mishandle/mismanage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mess up |
| Synonyms: | abuse, blow, blunder, botch*, bungle, confound, err, flub*, foul up, fumble, goof*, harm, misapply, misconduct, mistreat, misuse, muff*, overlook, pervert, prostitute, screw up*, be incompetent, be inefficient, goof up*, gum up, make a hash of, make a mess of, maladminister, misdirect, misemploy, misgovern, put foot in, shoot oneself in foot |
| Antonyms: | handle, manage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | misuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abuse; apply wrongly |
| Synonyms: | blow*, corrupt, cut up, desecrate, dissipate, exploit, go through, maltreat, maul, mess up*, misapply, mistreat, molest, outrage, pervert, profane, prostitute, run through*, shake up, squander, waste, wrong, brutalize, handle roughly, ill-treat, misemploy |
| 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 |
| Antonyms: | use correctly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outrage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wrong, offend, abuse |
| Synonyms: | affront, aggrieve, defile, deflower, desecrate, force, incense, infuriate, injure, insult, jar*, madden, maltreat, mistreat, misuse, oppress, persecute, raise Cain*, rape, ravage, ravish, scandalize, shock, spoil, violate, whip up*, boil over*, burn up*, do violence to, fire up, ill- treat, kick up a row, make hit the ceiling, reach boiling point |
| Antonyms: | delight, please, make happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pervert |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | twist, turn away from what is acceptable or correct |
| Synonyms: | abuse, adulterate, alloy, brainwash, color, corrupt, cut*, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, desecrate, distort, divert, doctor, fake, falsify, fudge*, garble, misconstrue, misinterpret, misrepresent, misstate, mistreat, misuse, outrage, prostitute, ruin, salt*, seduce, spike, vitiate, warp, water*, animalize, doctor up, phony up |
| Antonyms: | straighten, leave alone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rough up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | handle harshly |
| Synonyms: | abuse, bash, batter, beat up, hit, knock about, maltreat, manhandle, mishandle, mistreat, roughhouse, thrash, knock around, roughen, slap around |
| Antonyms: | aid, help, protect |
| Main Entry: | torment |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be or make very upset |
| Synonyms: | abuse, afflict, agonize, annoy, bait, bedevil, bone, bother, break, crucify, devil, distress, harass, harry, heckle, hound, hurt, irritate, mistreat, molest, nag, pain, persecute, pester, plague, provoke, punish, rack, smite, tease, torture, trouble, try, vex, worry, wring, drive bananas, drive up the wall, excruciate, give a hard time, harrow, play cat and mouse, put through wringer, rub salt in wound |
| Antonyms: | delight, please, make happy |
| Main Entry: | torture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | upset or hurt severely |
| Synonyms: | abuse, afflict, agonize, annoy, beat, bother, crucify, distress, disturb, grill, impale, injure, irritate, lacerate, maim, mangle, martyr, mistreat, mutilate, oppress, pain, persecute, rack, smite, torment, try, whip, wound, wring, wrong, excruciate, harrow, martyrize |
| Antonyms: | alleviate, please, relieve, make happy |
| Main Entry: | vilify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | criticize very harshly |
| Synonyms: | abuse, assail, attack, bad-mouth*, berate, blister, censure, curse, damn, debase, decry, defame, denigrate, denounce, dig*, disparage, dress down*, jinx, knock*, libel, malign, mistreat, pan*, put down*, rap*, revile, roast*, run down, scorch, slam*, slander, slur, smear*, tear down*, traduce, vituperate, voodoo*, asperse, call down*, caluminate, cuss, dump on, give a black eye, mudsling, put a whammy on, rag on, rip up, skin alive, speak ill of, tear into |
| Antonyms: | compliment, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurt, mistreat another |
| Synonyms: | abuse, aggrieve, cheat, damage, defame, discredit, dishonor, harm, hurt, injure, malign, maltreat, misrepresent, mistreat, offend, oppress, outrage, persecute, take advantage of, ill-treat, impose upon |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help, sympathize |
| Main Entry: | manhandle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | push |
| Synonyms: | abuse, batter, beat, damage, handle, knock about, maltreat, mangle, maul, mistreat, paw, pull, push, rough up, roughhouse, bung up, slap around |
| Main Entry: | mishandle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bobble |
| Synonyms: | abuse, blow, blunder, botch, bungle, confound, err, flub, foul up, fumble, goof, harm, mess up, misapply, misconduct, mistreat, misuse, muff, overlook, pervert, prostitute, screw up, be incompetent, be inefficient, goof up, gum up, maladminister, misdirect, misemploy, misgovern, mismanager |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | physically hurt or injure |
| Synonyms: | beat up, corrupt, cut up*, damage, defile, deprave, desecrate, harm, hose*, impair, maltreat, mar, mess up*, mishandle, mistreat, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pollute*, rough up, roughhouse, ruin, shake up*, spoil, taint, total*, victimize, violate, wax*, bang up, bung up, ill-treat |
| Antonyms: | cherish, defend, help, preserve, protect, respect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knock |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | push over; strike |
| Synonyms: | abuse, bash, batter, beat, beat up, bob, bruise, buffet, clap, clout, cuff, damage, deck, drub*, fell, flatten, floor, hit, hurt, level, maltreat, manhandle, maul, mistreat, pound, punch, rap, roughhouse, slap, smack, tap, thrash, thump, thwack*, total, wallop, whack*, wound, KO |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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