ill-treat

In these quotations, to vanquish foes and destroy enemies does not mean to ill-treat others in any way, or even to seek victory over them in a traditional sense.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2019

As such, the latter revered him and did not ill-treat him in their own country, where they carried him.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various

I don't want my son to tease you, much less ill-treat you.

From The Two Story Mittens and the Little Play Mittens Being the Fourth Book of the Series by Aunt Fanny

Only that he had been merciful, this young lord would not have been able to scorn him and ill-treat him as he had done.

From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope

"Do you really think I ill-treat my wife?"

From Who? by Elizabeth Kent