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Meaning treat meaning

What does treat mean?
Definitions in simple English

treat Verb

— If you treat someone in a certain way, you act that way towards them. I hate it when my teacher treats me like a child. He always treated her badly. No wonder she left him! — If you treat an illness or injury, you do things to make it better. The doctor couldn't treat my finger until he saw the X-ray. After the accident 29 people were treated in hospital for minor injuries. — If you treat something, you put something on it or do something to it protect or clean it. The woods was treated with chemicals before being made into paper.

treat Noun

— A treat is something nice that you don't get often. The occasional trip to a swimming pool is a real treat for most families. The children had a special treat of ice cream and cake.

treat

— verb (= handle) interact in a certain way Do right by her Treat him with caution, please Handle the press reporters gently — verb (= process) 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 — verb (= care for) 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 — verb (= cover, deal) 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 — verb 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 — verb engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement they had to treat with the King — verb regard or consider in a specific way I treated his advances as a joke — noun an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight — verb 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 — noun (= dainty) something considered choice to eat

Synonyms treat synonyms

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treat English » English

handle cure deal with process entertain heal care for deal feast remedy receive nurse doctor look after medicate manage discuss delight banquet attend to address use tend recover entertainment do by delicacy care work repair regale plow pleasure negotiate kickshaw goody deal in dainty attend transact take care of settle repast render present parley negociate mend maintain luxury

Topics treat topics

What do people use treat to talk about?
Person Healthy

Treat disease
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Pain
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Like, love

Enjoy doing something
Language and thought Communication Say

Talk about a subject
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Describe
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Be about, subject
States Quality Good Decay

Preserve
Person Healthy Injure

Poison
Social behavior Behavior

Do good to

Conjugation treat conjugation

How do you conjugate treat?

treat · verb

Examples treat examples

How do I use treat in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
The doctor had to treat a patient in a remote village.
I'll treat you.
It is cruel of him to ill-treat pets.
That sukiyaki dinner was a real treat.
You should be frank, and they will treat you as a friend.
You should treat this information in the main body of the text, not in the notes.
As you treat me, so I will treat you.
Don't treat me like a child.
He must be crazy to treat his parents like this.
I'll treat you to sushi.
He is a friend and I treat him as such.
Nowadays parents treat their children more as equals than they used to and the child is given more freedom to make his or her own decisions in life.
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
Just as you treat me, so I will treat you.
Teachers should treat all their students impartially.
We must treat these problems as a whole.
Having worked with you was a real treat for me.
As you treat me, so will I treat you.
It's shameful to treat a child so cruelly.

Movie subtitles

We'll treat you like a warrior.
Look, everyone, I know this is not easy, but please can we just treat her like any other patient.
My mum said she was coming on a treat.
The little chap who wears these is coming on a treat.
To play better, treat her better, cement the relationship.
I wanted to ask you, Peter, if you would treat me like a housemaid on the farm.
We will treat you by the law.
You have no right to treat me this way!
We must treat him like a mad dog.
Anne, prepare yourself for the treat of your life.
I'm a good-natured man if you'll treat me as such.
I only thought you might like to treat me as a human being.
But you must treat her as the true queen.
I don't want to treat you like my other guests.
I know. Hubert will treat everyone equally.
He requested a doctor to treat his sick mother.
Don't worry, I'll treat you well.
We'll treat her.
You treat that child better than your own.
I'll treat the wounded on the front.
I never thought to see the day I would treat your wounds like this.
They treat us worse than they treat you drug lords.
Treat him as they do a king, in manner royal.
This is a treat, your treat.
Nah. Just bitching about the food and the way they treat people.
I'll treat you like my father, and take care of you.
Before you begin filming, I'll treat you to a delicious cake.
If a government official like Itakura were to come here and get involved you can expect he won't treat this as a mere quarrel case.
And now I've got a real treat comin' for her. and her father!
I'll treat you right. and that's more than old Tustine will ever let Lem do!
That's the way you treat me.
Treat him as a. as a prince and a gentleman, always.
He'll not ill treat you?
You got a treat, then.
Maybe you can treat men that way who only come to have fun, but not somebody who's helped you.

News and current affairs

A policy for European food systems would treat production, processing, distribution, logistics, and retailing in combination.
BERKELEY - Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a good line at the International Monetary Fund meetings this year: governments, he said, are trying to treat a broken ankle when the patient is facing organ failure.
Because fear is at the core of many human pathologies, from panic attacks to posttraumatic stress disorder, breakthroughs in understanding the brain's fear system may lead to new ways to treat these disorders.
As we learn more, we may begin to figure out how to better treat - and even prevent - these conditions.
Argentine bonds (like most others) had a so-called pari passu clause that committed the government to treat all bondholders alike.
SINGAPORE - The British shadow minister for Europe, Pat McFadden, recently warned members of his Labour Party that they should try to make the most of the global economy and not treat immigration like a disease.
New fungal infections are even scarier and might be harder to treat.
While European police forces place prevention at the top of their agendas, France has chosen to treat it as a marginal goal.
And there would be money left over to help develop an HIV vaccine, deliver drugs to treat heart attacks, provide a Hepatitis B vaccine to the developing world, and prevent 31 million children from starving each year.
But, nearly four decades later, the battle remains focused on highly profitable efforts to develop drugs and technologies to treat the disease while virtually ignoring environmental factors that cause it.
If today's epic US borrowing does end in tears, and if world leaders fail to help the IMF get the job done, history will not treat them kindly.
How can farmers treat them with respect when consumers want cheaper meat and supermarkets are using their immense bargaining power to force producers to use every possible means to cut costs?
They die from diseases like measles, diarrhea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.
Those bilateral negotiations will benefit other members of the WTO as well, because membership in the WTO obligates China to treat all other members equally.
Or they can treat the crisis as a wake-up call to fix what debt has papered over in the last few decades.
How do you choose to treat a young girl but not her little brother?
In so doing, America must treat South Korea as a full partner with its own voice in making decisions that affect its security interests.
But the regime, like Franco's dictatorship, did not treat the members of this new middle class like adults, thereby encouraging widespread frustration.
China's unconditional support for North Korea's wayward regime, despite its repeated crimes against peace, is also a cause for concern about whether China will treat its neighbors' security concerns with respect.
To tackle global food security successfully, we must change the way we treat rural development, which requires adopting a much more bottom-up approach.
They often lack medicines, resources, and know-how to treat chronically ill patients, who may require years or decades of treatment.
My company, for example, is launching a portfolio of 15 essential medicines to treat diseases including diabetes, respiratory illnesses, and breast cancer.
At stake is not only assistance, but Pakistan's own future, for, in the absence of genuine commitment to counter-terrorism, it is only a matter of time before the country falls victim to the infection that it refuses to treat.
To address the scourge of cancer, we must complement efforts to detect and treat cancer with new ways to keep people from developing the disease in the first place.
In some countries, doctors find it more remunerative to work as translators for foreign-aid agencies than to treat poor patients.

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