ill-treat

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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

They made common cause in all quarrels and disputes, and to ill-treat one was to ill-treat both.

From Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 by Various

Oh, if they ill-treat you," cried the little one warmly, "only call Tausdorf to your help, he'll soon send them about their business!

From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Velde, Carl Franz van der

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 Trollope, Anthony

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