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treat

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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.

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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.

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verb (used without object)

to deal with a subject in speech or writing; discourse: a work that treats of the caste system in India.

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to give, or bear the expense of, a treat: Is it my turn to treat?

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to carry on negotiations with a view to a settlement; discuss terms of settlement; negotiate.

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noun

12.

entertainment, food, drink, etc., given by way of compliment or as an expression of friendly regard.

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anything that affords particular pleasure or enjoyment.

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the act of treating.

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one's turn to treat.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English treten (v.) < Old French tretier, traitier < Latin tractāre to drag, handle, treat, frequentative of trahere to drag. See tract¹

Related forms

treat·er, noun

non·treat·ed, adjective

o·ver·treat, verb

self-treat·ed, adjective

un·treat·ed, adjective

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well-treat·ed, adjective

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Many different medications are used to treat migraines.

Your colleagues, mostly older than you, treat you as a whelp instead of as someone who's au courant.

Gliomas are particularly difficult to treat with conventional therapies.

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Many different medications are used to treat migraines.

Your colleagues, mostly older than you, treat you as a whelp instead of as someone who's au courant.

Gliomas are particularly difficult to treat with conventional therapies.

Broad anecdotal evidence suggests acupuncture can effectively treat a host of ailments in animals.

Also, the symptoms are not long enough to treat with medication.

Uncover the bittersweet story of this ancient treat.

Spot treat spurge plants with herbicidal soap when they are young.

Not the heavy duty medical stuff, but things to treat the minor hiccups that can derail a day of walking and over-indulging.

Medications used to treat this condition include an anticholinergic drug called baclofen.

And there's no denying that it can sometimes be useful to treat the syllabus as a meaningful resource for the whole semester.

Many animals seem able to treat their illnesses themselves.

If necessary, treat the chlorinated wastewater with chemicals to neutralize any remaining chlorine.

Isn't it amazing how many people think drug therapy will treat drug addiction.

Psychiatrists, medical doctors and psychologists have used hypnosis for more than two centuries to treat pain and illness.

Sweet, succulent melons are an irresistible summer treat.

The military is scrambling for new ways to treat the brain injuries and post-traumatic stress of troops returning home from war.

Vaccine immunotherapy is the use of a specific vaccine to treat an existing cancer.

For the smart and ambitious people who become academics, school was a joy and a treat.

It is a pity that more is not done to prevent and treat addiction.

Meat is generally a rare treat for chimps, whose diet consists mainly of fruits and vegetables.

Scientists hope medication could treat learning disorders caused by autism.

It was a huge treat to visit him at the battered newsroom with all the hustle and bustle.

Build sundaes small or repeat layers for a double-dip treat.

Veterinarians successfully treat injured equines with stem cells derived from the animals' own fat.

Some of the agents used to treat hypertension, such as thiazide diuretics, can increase the risk for gout attacks.

The courtesy or discourtesy with which you treat your colleagues matters.

China does indeed treat some dictators with kid gloves, but it is hardly alone in that.

Rescue workers can clean and treat oiled birds and other relatively large animals that come ashore.

They treat us with antidepressants, misdirected therapy approaches.

My ideal summer treat is not a popsicle, a sundae or even an ordinary ice cream cone.

Two of summer's best flavors combine in a cool, creamy treat that doesn't push your calorie count.

The same devices could also be used to treat cancer.

He said oncologists would have to be trained to recognize the side effects and treat them quickly with corticosteroids.

Berry said the panel's work has been complicated by how much colleges differ in how they treat adjunct faculty members.

As a result, reverse osmosis first became established as a way to treat brackish water.

With good viewing conditions expected, sky-watchers are in for an early holiday treat.

Psychologists have known for some time that it is difficult to treat fearful memories with therapy.

Six of seven birds tested used the short stick to reach a longer one, which they then used to get their treat.

Here's a top-notch version that will make it a rare treat.

For those of us who grew up in the pre-cable era, cartoons were a rare treat.

When you do get migraine symptoms, try to treat them right away.

Don't be an insufferable jerk and tell students that your degree allows you to treat them any way you wish.

They could create new crops, new fuels, new ways of investigating diseases and new drugs to treat them.

Take a virtual tour of a chocolate factory and nibble on the history and science of this beloved treat.

The finding could facilitate efforts to develop drugs to treat the disease.

Other uses include electronics, spark plugs and in drugs to treat cancer.

She serves it for brunch or as a after dinner treat in hollowed-out melon halves.

Because doctors need to catch and treat the disease in its early stages while there's still brain to save.

If you do not finish all your antibiotics, the infection could return and may be harder to treat.

Treat your students the way you would have liked your professors to treat you.

From many investors' point of view, this has worked a treat.

Treat your skin with special care by creating simple, organic skin management products at home.

Two drugs that doctors have long used to treat malaria and certain psychotic illnesses may one day find a new use.

At any time of year a visit to these picturesque greenhouses is a treat.

Spicy apple, dried apricot and cherry filling is topped with a crunchy hazelnut streusel in this special harvest-time treat.

Imagine you could treat cancer by taking a pill, then directing a laser light toward the location of the tumor.

Antibiotics are used to treat the infection and prevent it from coming back.

Internal bleeding is dangerous and difficult to treat.

Though there are plenty of drugs to treat bacterial infections, there are few that can battle viruses.

Security fears spawn ways to treat radiotherapy's downside.

The revenue could be used to treat people who have serious substance abuse problems with drugs, alcohol and tobacco.

You'd never know that this chocolatey, smooth frozen treat is made with low-fat milk.

The idea is based on successful studies that used cortical cooling to treat survivors of strokes and cardiac arrest.

Some people may get special antibiotics to treat bacteria that live in the mouth.

Foreign donors sometimes bring food and tablets to treat convulsions.

Treat your family to a winter getaway no one will ever forget.

Many stem-cell researchers hope to treat diseases by recruiting these adaptable cells to replace others that have been damaged.

Just because you work next to a lab, doesn't mean they treat animals well.

In colder areas, treat as annuals, or grow them in containers and move them indoors or to a greenhouse for the winter.

Niemtzow, an oncologist, also sees acupuncture as a way to treat obesity and macular degeneration.

Angiogenesis¿the formation of new blood vessels¿might one day be manipulated to treat disorders from cancer to heart disease.

They'll be inoculated against diseases, and veterinarians will be available to treat sick lemurs.

Researchers have come up with hopeful results in a gene therapy experiment to treat chest pain.

Good news for chocoholics: the treat may help your heart.

Scientists are continuing to search for a way to treat infected bats and halt the spread of the disease.

Benzodiazepine tranquilizers, given to treat anxiety disorders and panic attacks, are no exception.

Not exactly light, but a nice treat if you'll be making a campfire the first night.

The results bring researchers a small but significant step closer to using stem cell transplants to treat a variety of diseases.

There is controversy over whether to treat patients with mild hypothyroidism.

The measure also means that teaching hospitals will treat fewer uninsured patients but be compensated with fewer federal dollars.

For years they have relied on blockbusters that treat many people.

Researchers have successfully used gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease in mice.

From slime to sponges, scientists are plumbing the ocean's depths for new medications to treat cancer, pain and other ailments.

Treat your friends to festive food, inventive decorations, and sparkling drinks.

Even though the drugs have been developed to treat disease, it will be hard to prevent their use by the healthy.

Sherwin listed her as its sole author, and argued that estrogen could help treat memory loss in older patients.

But the guts of those people who are given antibiotics to prevent or treat infection during a stay in hospital are different.

Navy are finding better ways to treat motion sickness, which could be good news for everyone.

The groundbreaking work could be tested to treat human blindness in two years.

And naturally librarians understand the desire of faculty and dissertation writers to treat library books as their own.

It may thus make sense to treat such prudential measures and capital controls similarly.

When a disease is rare, so is the funding for research to treat and cure it.

He said the application of shock waves to treat heart disease is an exciting step for the field.

In other words, treat this with all the seriousness and gravity it deserves airball.

These treat apostates as sinners to be punished, not individuals with a right to their own beliefs.

Positive results inject life into strategy to treat heart disease.

It is historic, inviting, and a real treat to visit.

Or, you can forgo the hardware and treat the board as pure sculpture.

Yet few countries' national accounts treat software this way.

Beta-blocking drugs used to treat high blood pressure may also dampen the emotional toll of traumatic memories, researchers say.

Or spot treat with an herbicide containing glyphosate, taking care to avoid contact with.

In other words, treat this with all the seriousness and gravity it deserves qrypt.

Good tomatoes, though, are a treat worth waiting for.

If you haven't checked out board games since you were a kid, you are in for a treat.

In other words, treat this with all the seriousness and gravity it deserves conjugate.

After all, it is in scientists' interests to treat animals well.

But the history of this cool treat is full of great moments and tasty trivia.

The findings should help researchers treat other diseases that compromise lung function.

Always a treat to see animal babies, such as these adorable lion cubs.

Researchers looking to treat insomnia have built a suit threaded with warm water-filled micro-pipes that promotes deeper sleep.

It is in everyone's best interest to treat all applicants with dignity, respect, and timely communications.

No self-respecting family leaves the doctor's surgery without a multiple prescription for drugs to treat even.

Or you purchased an overpriced pastry at a bakery because it somehow reminded you of a treat from your childhood.

It was once used to treat syphilis and applied topically to whiten skin.

In other words, treat this with all the seriousness and gravity it deserves dr_crankypants.

The finding could help sufferers of arthritis, cirrhosis, and other diseases that can be difficult to treat with existing drugs.

Researchers are looking for new ways to diagnose and treat both.

Local people ambled over-kindly folk who don't lock their doors or their pickups, and treat strangers with perfect courtesy.

Once you've potted the divisions, treat them with extra care until their roots become established.

Researchers also found that some germs were resistant to other drugs that are rarely or never used to treat dolphins.

In other words, treat this with all the seriousness and gravity it deserves mountain_ivy.

First, there is the question of how to treat human remains.

Yet the use of healing herbs endures-particularly simples, used to treat mild ailments.

Physicians use heparin to prevent blood clots after surgery and to treat clots that cause heart attacks.

Rather than romance, they could covet and treat themselves with sweets.

Treat them as the backbone of a border combined with perennials, annuals, and herbs.

Then there's the matter of spending millions to develop drugs to treat diseases that may simply never emerge as a threat.

In other words, treat this with all the seriousness and gravity it deserves svenc.

Others try all kinds of strategies to leave the tempting treat alone.

In other relationships, animals don't treat their partners so poorly.

During the first outbreak, no one knew what kind of disease it was nor how to treat it, he said.

Crisp lettuces become a savory treat with a quick trip to the grill, a drizzle of zippy.

If you treat your employees right, they will work their tails off for you.

She would mark the bag for inspection by officials at the exit, give him a treat from a bag on her belt, and then move on.

Scientists treat quantum information as if it were an object.

False confessions also affect how law-enforcement officers, attorneys, judges and juries treat defendants.

Later will come stem-cell trials to replace bone and cartilage and to better target bone-marrow transplants to treat leukemia.

My parents always taught me how important it is to treat everyone the same regardless of race or religion.

It went out of its way not to lay blame and to treat it as a technical dispute.

The flower yields a compound that has been used effectively to treat leukemia.

Another way to treat such pains is by instructing the patient to imagine making certain movements with the phantom limb.

They then treat it chemically or zap it with electricity to begin cell division.

Then treat the interim appointee with utmost respect and courteous regard.

Hospitals still use heroin derivatives to treat pain.

They're a sweet, juicy treat with one-and-a-half times.

In other words, treat this with all the seriousness and gravity it deserves biomancer.

His idea was to treat each sensor as if it were a pinhole camera.

Natural substances can treat cancer, prolong life and trigger amazing hallucinations.

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World English Dictionary

treat (triːt)

—n
1.	a celebration, entertainment, gift, or feast given for or to someone and paid for by another
2.	any delightful surprise or specially pleasant occasion
3.	the act of treating

—vb (usually foll by of)
4.	(tr) to deal with or regard in a certain manner: she treats school as a joke
5.	(tr) to apply treatment to: to treat a patient for malaria
6.	(tr) to subject to a process or to the application of a substance: to treat photographic film with developer
7.	(tr; often foll by to) to provide (someone) (with) as a treat: he treated the children to a trip to the zoo
8.	formal to deal (with), as in writing or speaking
9.	formal (intr) to discuss settlement; negotiate

[C13: from Old French tretier, from Latin tractāre to manage, from trahere to drag]

'treatable

—*adj*

'treater

—n

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Word Origin & History

treat

c.1300, "negotiate, bargain, deal with," from O.Fr. traitier (12c.), from L. tractare "manage, handle, deal with," originally "drag about," frequentative of trahere (pp. tractus) "to pull, draw" (see tract (1)). Meaning "to entertain with food and drink by way of compliment

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or kindness (or bribery)" is recorded from c.1500. Sense of "deal with in speech or writing" (early 14c.) led to the use in medicine (1781), "to attempt to heal or cure." The noun is first recorded late 14c., "action of discussing terms;" sense of "a treating with food and drink" (1650s) was extended by 1770 to "anything that gives pleasure." Treatment "conduct, behavior" is recorded from c.1560; in the medical sense, it is first recorded 1744.

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Medical Dictionary

treat (trēt)
v. treat·ed, treat·ing, treats