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treat
[ treet ]
verb (used with object)
- to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way:
to treat someone with respect.
- to consider or regard in a specified way, and deal with accordingly:
to treat a matter as unimportant.
- to deal with (a disease, patient, etc.) in order to relieve or cure.
- to deal with in speech or writing; discuss.
- to deal with, develop, or represent artistically, especially in some specified manner or style:
to treat a theme realistically.
- to subject to some agent or action in order to bring about a particular result:
to treat a substance with an acid.
- to entertain; give hospitality to:
He treats diplomats in the lavish surroundings of his country estate.
- to provide food, entertainment, gifts, etc., at one's own expense:
Let me treat you to dinner.
verb (used without object)
- to deal with a subject in speech or writing; discourse:
a work that treats of the caste system in India.
- to give, or bear the expense of, a treat:
Is it my turn to treat?
- to carry on negotiations with a view to a settlement; discuss terms of settlement; negotiate.
noun
- entertainment, food, drink, etc., given by way of compliment or as an expression of friendly regard.
- anything that affords particular pleasure or enjoyment.
- the act of treating.
- one's turn to treat.
treat
/ triːt /
noun
- a celebration, entertainment, gift, or feast given for or to someone and paid for by another
- any delightful surprise or specially pleasant occasion
- the act of treating
verb
- tr to deal with or regard in a certain manner
she treats school as a joke
- tr to apply treatment to
to treat a patient for malaria
- tr to subject to a process or to the application of a substance
to treat photographic film with developer
- tr; often foll by to to provide (someone) (with) as a treat
he treated the children to a trip to the zoo
- formal.intrusually foll byof to deal (with), as in writing or speaking
- formal.intr to discuss settlement; negotiate
Derived Forms
- ˈtreatable, adjective
- ˈtreater, noun
Other Words From
- treater noun
- non·treated adjective
- over·treat verb
- self-treated adjective
- un·treated adjective
- well-treated adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of treat1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with treat , also see Dutch treat ; trick or treat .Example Sentences
Almost everyone there will be a decent person and treat you well.
Yazbek tells The Daily Beast that the traffickers guarantee their service, and they treat the Syrian refugees with respect.
When ‘Downton Abbey’ returns Sunday night, its fashion fans are in for a familiar treat.
This is Bey and Nicki at their most lyrically masochistic, and boy, is it a treat.
Koenig apologies for what she seems to treat as a sign of weakness.
There is still a general tendency in universities on both sides of the Atlantic to treat propaganda as infection.
Not only are they required to do things in a proper orderly manner, but people have to treat them with due deference.
Rather blow out your own brains than treat with enmity those who are your liberators.
You could use some force to prevent him, you could not kill him, or put out his eyes, or treat him roughly.
A car conductor is instructed to treat passengers civilly and to use no harsh means with them, save in extreme cases.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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