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treat(verb)/triːt/ /triːt/Verb Forms- to behave in a particular way towards somebody/something
- to treat people with respect
- to treat people with caution/suspicion/dignity
- Treat your keyboard with care and it should last for years.
- All candidates will be treated equally, regardless of age.
- They treat their animals quite badly.
- She felt unfairly treated.
- My parents still treat me like a child.
- He was treated as a hero on his release from prison.
- They treat him as if he weren't even there.
Extra Examples- Parents still tend to treat boys differently from girls.
- He is guilty and should be treated accordingly.
- You should treat people with more respect.
- the tendency to treat older people as helpless and dependent
- He treated the idea with suspicion.
- to consider something in a particular way
- I decided to treat his remark as a joke.
- to deal with or discuss something in a particular way
- The question is treated in more detail in the next chapter.
- These allegations are being treated very seriously indeed.
- All cases involving children are treated as urgent.
- to give medical care or attention to a person, an illness, an injury, etc.
- She was treated for sunstroke.
- The students involved were treated for head injuries.
- The clinic has treated several thousand patients free of charge .
- She was treated in hospital.
- He was treated for depression with medication prescribed by his doctor.
- to treat a disease/a condition/cancer
- The hospital treated forty cases of malaria last year.
- Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections.
- The condition is usually treated with drugs and a strict diet.
Extra Examples- She was treated for cuts and bruises.
- The drug is effective at treating depression.
- We can treat this condition quite successfully with antibiotics.
- to use a chemical substance or process to clean, protect, preserve, etc. something
- to treat crops with insecticide
- wood treated with preservative
Extra Examples- Chemically treated hair can become dry and brittle.
- You need to treat this wood for woodworm.
- Water is discharged from the sewage works after being treated.
- to pay for something that somebody/you will enjoy and that you do not usually have or do
- She treated him to lunch.
- Don't worry about the cost—I'll treat you.
- I'm going to treat myself to a new pair of shoes.
- to treat somebody with no respect at all
- They treat their workers like dirt.
Word Origin- Middle English (in the senses ‘negotiate’ and ‘discuss a subject’): from Old French traitier, from Latin tractare ‘handle’, frequentative of trahere ‘draw, pull’. The current noun sense dates from the mid 17th cent.
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