misshandel.
deliberately causing bodily harm to someone (who has a limited ability or will to resist); beating someone up, physical abuse, assault, etc.
Meaning & usage
deliberately causing bodily harm to someone (who has a limited ability or will to resist); beating someone up, physical abuse, assault, etc.
Fångarna utsättes för svår misshandel
deliberately causing bodily harm to someone (who has a limited ability or will to resist); beating someone up, physical abuse, assault, etc. battery
abuse (causing harm to someone more generally, for example through psychological or sexual abuse, or to an object, whether intentional or not)
Where this word comes from
Noun form of misshandla, cognate with Middle High German Missehandel, and German Misshandel (wrongdoing, misdeed), originally in the now obsolete sense of wrongdoing, misdeed, but since 1840 in the sense of physical abuse of people.
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