transitive. To afflict by way of punishment; to punish, chastise; to ill-treat, torment. Obsolete.

figurative. To treat (a person) abusively or with contumely; to vex, torment; to harass, afflict; to abuse, outrage, profane. Obsolete.

transitive. To ill-use or ill-treat; to injure or abuse. (In Old English with object in dative). Also intransitive with till.

figurative. To treat, ‘serve’ in some (unwelcome) manner. Obsolete.

With prep. by, with: To deal with, treat, esp. in to fare fairor foul with. Also in indirect passive. to fare with oneself: to behave. Obsolete.

transitive. To subject to ill-treatment; to treat badly.

transitive. To go beyond, overcome; to surpass, excel; †to vanquish, crush (obsolete). English regional (northern) in later use.

To treat evilly, use ill, abuse. Obsolete.

transitive. To treat with violence; to maltreat; to despoil; to harass.

transitive. To treat badly; to mistreat, abuse.

transitive. To treat badly or wrongly; to ill-treat.

transitive. To mistreat (a person or thing); to injure, hurt; to wrong.

transitive. To treat in a particular way. to mayne evil: to maltreat.

esp. (chiefly in Scottish writers) To treat badly, illtreat, maltreat. Obsolete.

to put (a person) to villainy.

To worry, goad, torment, harass; to maltreat, ill-use, persecute; to worry mentally.

transitive. To handle or treat badly, wrongly, or roughly; to ill-treat. Also in extended use.

figurative. To abuse or maltreat in some way compared to the literal senses. Now rare or Obsolete.

transitive. To ill-treat, ill-use. Obsolete.

To harass by rough or severe treatment, by repeated aggression or attack; to assail with hostile or menacing speech.

figurative. transitive. To afflict, assail, or verbally attack (a person or thing); to be an irritation to. Also: to stir to activity, to excite…

transitive. To handle roughly or clumsily, to maul; to mix up in confusion, jumble. Also with together, up. Also figurative. Obsolete (English reg…

transitive. = abuse, v.

transitive. To tread (a fowl) as crows or rooks were supposed to do; hence figurative to subject to ignominious treatment, abuse.

transitive. Scottish. To misuse; to spoil. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To abuse, ill-use; to handle roughly; to ill-treat. Chiefly with person as object. Cf. mistreat, v.

To subject to severe treatment. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To treat badly; to deal harshly, unkindly, or cruelly with; to ill-use, maltreat.

transitive. Sport. To inflict severe blows on (an opponent, esp. in boxing); to strike (the ball) forcefully or frequently.

figurative. = touse, v. 3.

transitive. To ‘use’ or treat badly; to deal cruelly, unkindly, or inconsiderately with.

transitive. To provoke; to treat harshly, harangue.

transitive. colloquial. To handle roughly; also figurative. Also: to inconvenience or annoy, esp. by acting indecisively. With about, around.

to change horses: to substitute a fresh horse for that which has been ridden or driven up to this point; to change (swap) horses in midstream (whi…

transitive. To cause (someone) difficulty or inconvenience, esp. by acting unfairly or indecisively; to interfere or meddle with (something). Cf…

figurative. To treat roughly; to drug; to exploit; to overcharge; to force out of; to churn out.

To treat (a person) harshly, violently, or abusively; spec. to murder (someone). Now somewhat rare.

transitive. To kick in all directions; also figurative, to treat (someone) harshly, unfairly, or contemptuously. Chiefly U.S.

transitive. colloquial. Originally in African-American usage: to wrong, to treat unfairly. With over.