TREAT
Definition:
- [noun] something considered choice to eat
Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw
- [noun] an occurrence that cause special pleasure or delight
- [verb] interact in a certain way; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently"
Synonyms: handle, do by
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: process
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: care for
- [verb] deal with 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"
Synonyms: cover, handle, plow, deal, address
- [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] provide with choice or abundant food or drink; "Don't worry about the expensive wine
Synonyms: regale
- [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"
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Related Words:
- mock, bemock
- ignore, disregard, snub, cut
- wrong
- handle with kid gloves
- criminalize
- nurse
- strong-arm
- ride roughshod, run roughshod
- upstage
- rough-house
- brutalize, brutalise
- do justice, do-well by
- gloss over, skate over, smooth over, slur over, skimp over
- mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat
- pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge
- propagate
- iodize, iodise
- nitrate
- tank
- oxygenate, oxygenize, oxygenise, aerate
- mercerize, mercerise
- malt
- fluoridate, fluoridize, fluoridise
- creosote
- chlorinate
- carbonate
- camphorate
- bromate, brominate
- ammoniate
- irradiate, ray
- scald
- refine
- nitrify, nitrogenize, nitrogenise
- reverberate
- curry
- seed
- dose
- winnow
- sulphur, sulfur
- vulcanize, vulcanise
- chrome
- bituminize, bituminise
- Agenize, Agenise
- run
- carboxylate
- beneficiate
- digest
- fumigate, fume
- air-condition
- hyperventilate
- massage
- purge
- correct
- insufflate
- detoxify
- irrigate
- iodize, iodise
- doctor
- vet
- nurse
- manipulate
- administer, dispense
- remedy, relieve
- dress
- splint
- operate on, operate
- medicate, medicine
- bleed, leech, phlebotomize, phlebotomise
- cup, transfuse
- shock
- pack
- cauterize, cauterise, burn
- analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse
- theologize, theologise
- discourse, talk about, discuss
- wine
- alcoholize
- feed, feast
- choice morsel, tidbit, titbit
- savory, savoury
- sweet, confection, confectionery
- ambrosia, nectar
- gelatin, jelly
- marrow, bone marrow
