treat
Nouns
- (n) something considered choice to eat dainty, goody, kickshaw, delicacy,
- (n) an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight
Verbs
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(v) interact in a certain way
- Do right by her
- Treat him with caution, please
- Handle the press reporters gently
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(v) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
- process cheese
- process hair
- treat the water so it can be drunk
- treat the lawn with chemicals"
- treat an oil spill
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(v) provide treatment for
- The doctor treated my broken leg
- The nurses cared for the bomb victims
- The patient must be treated right away or she will die
- Treat the infection with antibiotics
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(v) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- This book deals with incest
- The course covered all of Western Civilization
- The new book treats the history of China
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(v) provide with a gift or entertainment
- Grandmother always treated us to the circus
- I like to treat myself to a day at a spa when I am depressed
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(v) provide with choice or abundant food or drink
- Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating
- She treated her houseguests with good food every night
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(v) engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement
- they had to treat with the King
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(v) regard or consider in a specific way
- I treated his advances as a joke