bring down the hammer
trample
punish
brutalize
brutalise
cruelize
sandbag
bedevil
rag
crucify
dun
torment
frustrate
kill
overharsh
nail someone to the wall
sharp
overharshly
tart
overpunish
sharp-worded
unrelenting
brutal
overharshness
smoke
stiff
harshly
cruel
lech
roust
sharpness
crap on
overjudge
asperity
shit on
do somebody wrong
ill-use
have someone's guts for garters
disserve
eat out
spite
ride roughshod
run roughshod
harshness
teach someone a lesson
tough
gruel
swing for
overstrict
minimize
mistreatment
wrong
asperate
brutalization
harshish
brutalisation
draw and quarter
overcruel
castigate
cruel-heartedly
bollock
smite
throw the book at
incondign
severe
rough up
slow-walk
tekan
patronise
punitively
punitorily
condescend
patronize
overcoddle
penally
treat like dirt
rasp
forget one's manners
stomp on
raw
dub
harshen
swingeing
chew up and spit out
dissonate
overcaution
overrigorous
have someone's hide
scourge
searingly
overhandle
do
bash
punishingly
undignify
censure
slam

English words for 'to treat harshly'

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