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ill use
Overview of verb ill-use
The verb ill-use has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat -- (treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead")
Antonyms of verb ill-use
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb ill-use
1 sense of ill-use
Sense 1
mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat
=> treat, handle, do by
=> interact
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb ill-use
1 sense of ill-use
Sense 1
mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat
=> kick around
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb ill-use
1 sense of ill-use
Sense 1
mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat
=> treat, handle, do by
'Cause To' of verb ill-use
Derived Forms of verb ill-use
1 sense of ill-use
Sense 1
mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat
RELATED TO>(noun) ill-usage#1
=> maltreatment, ill-treatment, ill-usage, abuse
Domain of verb ill-use
Domain Terms of verb ill-use
Familiarity of verb ill-use
ill-use used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb ill-use
1 sense of ill-use
Sense 1
mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat
EX: They want to ill-use the prisoners
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb ill-use
1 sense of ill-use
Sense 1
mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat
> treat, handle, do by
=> mock, bemock
=> ignore, disregard, snub, cut
=> wrong
=> handle with kid gloves
=> criminalize
=> nurse
=> strong-arm
=> ride roughshod, run roughshod
=> upstage
=> rough-house
=> brutalize, brutalise
=> do justice, do-well by
=> gloss over, skate over, smooth over, slur over, skimp over
=> mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat
=> pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb ill-use
Sense 1
mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat
=> treat, handle, do by
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Grep of verb ill-use
ill-use
Grep of adj ill-use
ill-used
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