Mistreat
The crossword clue "Mistreat" is answered by ABUSE, a 5-letter entry. Used 71 times across 37 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 16 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ABUSE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ABUSE answer page.
Used 71 times across 37 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 16 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- ILLUSE (11 uses in xd)
- HARM (3 uses in xd)
- INJURE (1 uses in xd)
- MANHANDLE (1 uses in xd)
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