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maltratar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • maul noun A heavy hammer used for driving wedges when splitting logs, or as a weapon.
  • mistreat verb To treat someone or something badly or cruelly.
  • punish verb To make someone suffer a penalty for wrongdoing or misconduct.
  • trample verb To crush or damage something by walking heavily on it.
  • wrong adj Incorrect or not true.

Senses

maltratar is used for these senses in English:

  • manhandle (transitive) To mishandle; to handle roughly; to mangle.
  • maul To handle someone or something in a rough way.
  • mistreat (transitive) To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.
  • punish (transitive, figuratively) To treat harshly and unfairly.
  • trample (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
  • wrong To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.

maul — full definition

  1. noun A heavy hammer used for driving wedges when splitting logs, or as a weapon.
  2. verb To injure someone badly by tearing at them, typically said of an animal attack.
  3. verb To handle roughly or criticise harshly.

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