treat1 verbtreat2 noun
treattreat1 /triːt/ ●●● S2 W1 verb [transitive] 
WORD ORIGINtreat1
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French traitier, from Latin tractare; ➔ TRACTABLEVERB TABLE
treat
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | treat |
| he, she, it | treats | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | treated |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have treated |
| he, she, it | has treated | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had treated |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will treat |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have treated |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am treating |
| he, she, it | is treating | |
| you, we, they | are treating | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was treating |
| you, we, they | were treating | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been treating |
| he, she, it | has been treating | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been treating |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be treating |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been treating |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- After my nervous breakdown, everyone kept treating me with kid gloves.
- Amy's treated him really badly - no wonder he's upset.
- As it's your birthday, I thought I'd treat you.
- Doctors are treating him for cancer.
- Douglas was treated with much more respect after his promotion.
- Glen treated Cathy to dinner at one of the best restaurants in town.
- I'm sick of my parents treating my like a child.
- I don't know what she sees in him - he treats her like dirt.
- In remote areas, make sure your drinking water has been treated.
- Let's all go to a movie - my treat.
- Many common infections can be treated with antibiotics.
- No one would suggest that sex offenders should be treated lightly.
- Police say that her death is being treated as suspicious.
- Some sleep problems can be temporarily treated with sleeping pills.
- The company treats training as a continuous part of career development.
- The school are treating this matter very seriously.
- I have been very kindly treated in your lovely City, and everyone has been good to me.
- I occasionally have to treat him.
- It means treating a viewer with respect.
- Makine is a good writer, poetic but never fanciful, and one who treats childhood reflected through experience with delicacy.
- Police said 36 people were arrested, mainly for public order offences, and four casualties were treated in hospital.
- That stereotype speaks less for women's liberation than a society which treats children as a disruptive influence, a social nuisance.
- Whales, forests, and aquifers have been treated in the same way.
THESAURUS
to do and say things that are good, bad, normal, strange etc: · His teacher said he’d been behaving badly at school.· I’m not going to talk to her until she starts behaving reasonably.· Oh, be quiet! You’re behaving like a two-year-old.
to behave in a particular way, especially in a way that seems unusual, surprising, or annoying to other people: · Tina’s been acting very strangely lately.· What makes grown people act like that?
to behave towards someone or deal with someone in a particular way: · She said that he’d treated her really badly throughout their two-year marriage.· I’m sick of my parents treating me like a child.
to behave in the way that most other people in your group or society behave: · Young people sometimes want to rebel and therefore they refuse to conform.· Society typically brings pressure on individuals and groups to conform to civilised norms.
formal to behave in a particular way, especially in a situation where people will notice and judge the way you behave: · Public figures have a duty to conduct themselves responsibly, even in their private lives.· By the end of the course, you should be able to conduct yourself with confidence in any meeting.
Longman Language Activatorto behave towards someone in a particular way to behave towards someone or deal with someone in a particular way: treat somebody well/badly: · Amy's treated him really badly - no wonder he's upset.treat somebody like somebody/something: · I'm sick of my parents treating me like a child.treat somebody like dirt (=treat someone very badly): · I don't know what she sees in him - he treats her like dirt.treat somebody with respect/contempt/kindness etc: · Douglas was treated with much more respect after his promotion.treat somebody with kid gloves (=be very careful how you deal with someone so that they do not become upset, angry etc.): · After my nervous breakdown, everyone kept treating me with kid gloves.
British /toward American to behave in a particular way when you are with someone: · Sometimes he behaves very strangely towards me.
especially British to treat someone in a particular way in order to avoid problems and to get them to do what you want: · I knew I would have to be very careful how I handled Odette - she was so emotional.· Francis is a natural leader. He's very good at handling people.
to treat someone in a particular way, especially someone who has a problem or someone who has behaved very badly: · There's only one way to deal with naughty children and that's to be strict with them.· The police received training in how to deal with families of crime victims.· I try to deal with everyone in an honest, ethical way.
to buy something for someone else to buy something such as a meal for someone because you like them or you want to celebrate something: · As it's your birthday, I thought I'd treat you.treat somebody to something: · Glen treated Cathy to dinner at one of the best restaurants in town.
spoken use this to say that you will pay for drinks, food etc or that a particular person will pay for them : · Don't worry about the price - this meal's on me.be on the house (=the bar or restaurant you are in will pay for your meal, drinks etc): · The manager apologized and told us our drinks would be on the house for the rest of the evening.
to buy a drink for everyone in the group that you are with, in a place which sells alcoholic drinks: · I'll get this round. What would you like?· Jack always leaves when it's his turn to buy a round.
to treat a person or animal in a cruel way · My father drank too much and was often very cruel to my mother.· It is unspeakably cruel to the prisoners to house them in such conditions.
to deliberately treat a person or animal in a cruel way, especially when you are responsible for looking after them: · It looks as though this dog has been mistreated by its owner.· Neighbours were sure that the young couple had been ill-treating their children.
to be cruel to someone who is weaker, younger, or has less authority than you: · A group of girls would bully the younger kids, and force them to give them money.· The court heard that the head of department would routinely bully and humiliate workers.
to treat someone in your family or someone you are responsible for in a cruel way, especially violently or sexually: · My father abused us for years.· Erica runs a hostel for women who have been abused by their husbands.sexually abuse (=force someone to take part in sexual activities): · Erik testified he was sexually abused by his father since the age of 6.
to be cruel to a person or group of people over a period of time, because of their race or their religious or political beliefs: · Countries all over Europe have persecuted gypsies for centuries.· Human rights advocates say racial minorities continue to be persecuted.
informal to treat someone as if they were completely worthless and not care about their feelings: · She treats him like dirt but he still loves her.· I wanted us to be friends again, but I wasn't prepared to be treated like dirt to achieve it.
informal to choose someone from a group to treat cruelly and unfairly especially by repeatedly criticizing them: · Bullies usually pick on younger children.· Why don't you pick on someone your own size?· Older members of staff often pick on an apprentice and make his life a misery.
also victimise British if a person or group is victimized , they are treated unfairly, for example because of their beliefs, their race, or because they are weak: · He wasn't happy at the school and said he was victimized because of his colour.· The company says she was not dismissed because of her political activities but she claims she was victimized.
to deal with a difficult situation in a particular way to deal with something or someone in a particular way and with a particular attitude: · The school are treating this matter very seriously.treat something/somebody lightly (=not seriously or severely): · No one would suggest that sex offenders should be treated lightly.treat something as something: · The company treats training as a continuous part of career development.· Police say that her death is being treated as suspicious.
to deal with a situation by behaving in the way you think will be best in order to achieve the result that you want: · Have you decided how you want to play it?play it well/carefully/steady etc: · You can get exactly what you want if you play it carefully.play (it) safe (=not take any risks): · In the run-up to the election, politicians in both parties just wanted to play it safe.play (it) straight (=do something or deal with someone in a direct honest way): · Some of the people involved in the competition, were not playing it straight.· "Play straight with me or I'll kill you," he hissed.play it cool (=behave as though you do not care about something or someone): · She would not show him how upset she was. It was always smarter to play it cool.play it by ear (=decide what to do as the situation develops): · "What'll you do if he asks you?" "I'm not sure, I'll play it by ear."
to begin to deal with a difficult situation in a particular way or with a particular attitude: · I don't think refusing to negotiate is the right way to approach this problem.· Try to relax before the exam, and you'll approach it in a better frame of mind.
to give someone medical treatment to try to make someone better when they are ill or injured, for example by giving them drugs or hospital care: treat somebody for something: · Doctors are treating him for cancer.treat something with something: · Many common infections can be treated with antibiotics.
if a doctor operates on someone, he or she cuts them open in order to remove or repair a part of their body that is damaged: · The doctor says they'll have to operate straightaway, before the cancer spreads.operate on: · It can be risky to operate on very old people.· They had to operate on my arm because it was broken in two places.
to pay for someone else's food, drink, ticket etc to pay for someone else, for example for their meal, drink, or ticket: · If I go out for a meal with my parents, they always pay.pay for: · When we got to the ferry, Eddie took out a five-dollar bill and paid for Terry and me.· Who paid for your driving lessons?pay for somebody to do something: · My company paid for me to go to evening classes.
to buy something such as a meal or theatre ticket for someone, because you like them or want to celebrate something: · As it's your birthday, I thought I'd treat you.treat somebody to something: · We treated Sally to lunch at the Savoy.
to pay for something, especially when it is not necessarily your responsibility or duty to do this: · We all went out to dinner, and Adam picked up the tab.pick up the tab for: · Usually the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab for a publicity tour.
spoken say the drinks are on me , this meal's on me etc when you are telling someone you will pay for their drinks, their meal etc: · Order whatever you like -- this is on me!· Put your money away -- the drinks are on us.
to buy drinks for the people you are with in a bar: · Joe bought a round of drinks for everyone.
British spoken say this when it is your turn to buy the drinks for the people you are with in a bar: · No, it's my shout. What are you drinking?
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYadverbs
Don’t let him treat you like a doormat. The speech went down a treat with members (=members liked it very much). I want you to treat Hayley with kid gloves today. She’s still upset about her father. I’m not surprised she left. He treated her like muck (=very badly). At school the other children treated them like royalty. Birth is a natural process, and should be treated as such.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· The majority of workers are well treated.
· Why did he treat me so badly?
· I just want to be treated fairly.
· All people should be treated equally, whatever their age.
· Should girls be treated differently from boys in school?
· The guards treated the prisoners harshly.
· The world had not treated him kindly.
phrases· When you treat the kids with respect, they act responsibly.
informal (=very badly and with no respect)· He treated this wife like dirt.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=something special you do on your birthday)· What would you like to do for a birthday treat?
· The results of the survey should be treated with caution.
· The opinions of the public should not be ignored or treated with contempt.
· She treated these accusations with the contempt they deserved.
· The disease can be treated with antibiotics.
· The drug is used to treat lung disorders.
Don’t let him treat you like a doormat. The speech went down a treat with members (=members liked it very much).· Each student must be treated as an individual.
· Antibiotics are used to treat the infection.
· The injury was treated at the local hospital.
I want you to treat Hayley with kid gloves today. She’s still upset about her father. I’m not surprised she left. He treated her like muck (=very badly). (=try to cure their illness or injury)· Patients are treated in terms of priority.
· Everyone has a right to be treated with respect.
At school the other children treated them like royalty. Birth is a natural process, and should be treated as such.· Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed.· Will their children be treated badly in school?· He said he was not treated badly and that he was with other political prisoners.· We continually talk to ourselves about them, losing force all the time, and feel that we are very badly treated.· It was also beginning to vex Hal, who was treated badly by those wider than him.· Lovely, simple, and demure. Badly treated by her family and underappreciated.· He was treated badly by most of the people around him.· But all women here are treated badly.
· Each of the four types of illness was treated differently by the villagers.· What they failed to realize was that the Volunteers were not being treated differently from anyone else.· Should the case of the homosexual union be treated differently?· Tax rates rise and fall, but the individual and the business are always treated differently.· When unhappy circumstances befell him, he was treated differently from other employees in the same circumstances.· They came to see that differ-ent subordinates should be treated differently.· Here, the emphasis is on the need to isolate and treat differently each conflict of interest situation according to its particular facts.· Why is it being treated differently than diet pills?
· He claimed in court that he had been treated unfairly.· How else can a child hope that justice will be done to him, who so often feels unfairly treated?· But Sue Hampton says she's perfectly capable of carrying on, and has been treated unfairly.· But campaigners say fathers who are already paying are being treated unfairly.· But despite an independent survey showing the council was being unfairly treated, the Government has refused to budge.
NOUN· She decided to rest, having treated enough cases of sunstroke to know very well how easily it was caught.· It was treated as a criminal case.· The diagonal group is treated as individual cases.· The Labour party and trade unions say farmworkers need to be protected and need to be treated as a special case.· This is sometimes described in the catch phrase that we must treat like cases alike.· Psychiatrists tend to treat their cases more as organisms in need of medical treatment.· H.C. Westermann, who died in 1981, is being treated as a special case.· The majority of the House of Lords treated the case as being concerned with duty of care.
· The official government figures need to be treated with some caution.· They still treated each other with caution but each was beginning to respect the other's professionalism.· An appeal is likely, however, so the decision should be treated with caution.· The information has to be treated with some caution.· Cases over five years should be treated with caution as applying a multiplier is not particularly useful.· Patterned fabrics may appeal to you, but they should be treated with the utmost caution.· A healthy diet will of course be helpful to you, but extreme or very limited diets should be treated with caution.
· That stereotype speaks less for women's liberation than a society which treats children as a disruptive influence, a social nuisance.· He complained incessantly of being treated like a child by the firm.· Ambulance crews who treated the child said she was extremely fortunate not to suffer serious eye injuries in the incident.· Instead of relying to some extent on the Volunteers' own judgment, he treated them like children.· Yet apparently many parents still treat their children like that.· On the other hand we seldom treat children like adults.· Bitterness that their fathers still treat them as children.· As if he was treating her like a child ... But of course that was nonsense.
· Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home.· She was preparing to marry me and had applied for papers, but she treated me with contempt.· Non-cooperation is treated as contempt of court.· Opposition forces claim past practice as the basis for treating women with contempt.· As imperial portraits attracted faith, so images of emperors who had betrayed their subjects' trust were treated with contempt.· But, happily, not everybody treats kids with contempt.· Maybe Lucenzo had good reason to treat her with contempt.· Telemachus they treated with amused contempt as if he were a mere boy and quite beneath their notice.
· Eight states are seeking reimbursement for treating diseases related to smoking.· It appears to be useful in treating the auto-immune disease of lupus in humans.· An ophthalmic optician or optometrist tests for and prescribes glasses and can diagnose eye conditions, but doesn't treat eye diseases.· The spas treat everything from skin diseases to hypertension, cancer and intestinal problems.· Thousands of tonnes of nutrients and uncontrolled quantities of toxic chemicals used to treat fish disease are pumped into lochs each year.· Controversy exists on spread, diagnosis and how to treat the disease.· So different are the careers of pre-menopausal and post-menopausal cancer that they should be treated as different diseases.· The remaining units make dialysis equipment and provide renal therapy to treat kidney disease and ease transplants.
· I've already spoken on the phone to the doctors who treated you in Salisbury.· Please could you have this checked by a Doctor and treat him with the appropriate shampoo before sending him back to school.· Liz had finally come to my office on the suggestion of her doctor, who was treating her for migraines.· If a doctor treats a patient with high blood pressure he records blood pressure levels before, during and after treatment.· The line between legal and illegal is very fine for doctors treating dying patients.· If the doctor desires to treat the patient, he is often in a strong position to persuade such a relative to concur.· The methods doctors use to treat obesity do work in the short term, which is what keeps them going.
· In just two years Opren captured well over half the market for drugs to treat arthritis.· Two new and effective medications have, in fact, recently been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat osteoporosis.· There was one fascinating lecture on chirality and organic synthesis including the design of Salbutamol, a drug used to treat asthma.· The finding may help scientists create drugs to treat obese humans.· The flagship product of the United States pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will now have to contend with another drug that treats impotence.· But if one type of drug can treat a host of ailments, does that mean the disorders are somehow connected?· Some work is going into drugs to treat drug addiction.· Outside the financial-services industry, some companies that make drugs to treat AIDS-related illnesses also have been buffeted recently.
· Diana Adams was treated in hospital after being bitten on the arm.· The injured were being treated at two Bombay hospitals, police said.· Police said 36 people were arrested, mainly for public order offences, and four casualties were treated in hospital.· Of infections treated in hospitals, about one-third are nosocomial.· Four hurt: Four men were treated in hospital after a head-on car crash at Musham Bank, Scarborough.· He was treated at Sonoma Valley Hospital for neck pain and a mild concussion, and released.· The survivors are being treated in hospital in Yuma, and will be deported when they are able to be moved.· At least seven people sustained minor injuries and were being treated at local hospitals.
· A qualified nurse is available to treat injuries and general illnesses and to advise on general health matters.· But his countrymen did not treat his illness as a joke.· The legislation would require corporate health plans to treat mental illnesses the same as physical ailments.· Last year 110,000 people died and 254,000 were treated for smoking related illnesses, taking up 9,473 hospital beds every day.· The lawsuit seeks reimbursement for costs of treating people with tobacco-related illnesses.· In treating acute illnesses there are only two outcomes to giving the wrong low potency remedy.· Outside the financial-services industry, some companies that make drugs to treat AIDS-related illnesses also have been buffeted recently.
· Opposition is most fierce in states such as California that have already found ways to curb the cost of treating Medicaid patients.· The Government claims National Health Service dentists overspent their budget last year by treating more patients than it'd estimated.· What does this mean and should we be treating these patients?· They plan to treat around fifty patients a week, for the next month.· If the usual winter epidemic of flu causes overcrowding, arrangements have been made to treat patients in privately run hospitals.· Very small amounts were available, quite insufficient to treat all the patients who might benefit.· Armonatherapy uses naturally grown aromatic substances to treat patients.
· We treat older people as a group and set them at the margins of society.· Eight states have sued the industry, seeking to recover the Medicaid insurance costs of treating poor people with tobacco-related diseases.· We can understand plutonium and work out how to treat people who have it in them.· Public hospitals are concerned that they will not have enough money to treat indigent people not covered by Medicaid.· The problem was, I got tired of treating people with shoddy equipment and time-expired medicines.· What gives you the right to treat people like this?· Securicor guards and Immigration Officers can treat people as they wish.· How we treat the people we come in contact with.
· These 4,505 persons are treated as representative of persons considered responsible for crime during the mature colonial period.· And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.· They say giving some one a patch is far cheaper than treating the same person for heart disease or lung cancer.· It is primarily preventative and treats the whole person rather than just the ailment.· It's also very important not to treat a confused person as a child.· It is quite illegitimate to treat a person in such a situation as a mere swindler.· We treat persons with a respect denied to animals and objects.
· She deserves to be treated with respect and sensitivity, and to be formally recognised.· Domovoi would cheerfully undertake household chores while the family slept, if they were treated with respect and gratitude.· As employers, we are responsible for making sure employees are treated with respect and dignity.· Everyone has a right to be treated with respect.· When you do hear those very special words, make sure you treat them with respect.· This philosophy regards the individual's right to be treated with respect as inviolate.· Many women have serious problems and deserve to be treated with respect and offered help that is to the point.
· It took half a mile to come to a halt after the crash and the driver was treated for shock.· In the name of Freudian nurture theories, gays were once treated with aversion therapy-electric shocks and emetics accompanied by homoerotic images.· The police officer who saw the shooting is being treated for shock.· They were treated for shock, but were said to be only slightly injured.· No shots were fired but Mrs Walker was treated for shock.· All were treated in hospital for shock.· The driver of the lorry was treated in hospital for shock.· She has only recently returned to full duties, and was treated for shock and minor cuts.
· I felt the way he treated me was wrong.· The finding may lead to a way to prevent or treat cocaine addiction.· They do not have authority over me because the right way to treat their advice depends on my goals.· The only way to trick-or-treat at their age was to create an atmosphere of mild intimidation.· There was something about the way she was treating them that still seemed odd to Masklin.· I think it had to do with the way he treated the bar girl.· And then this nightmare complication: I can't stand the way he treats her.· But it is the way you treat each other which matters most.
· Feminists have noted that it always seems to be appropriate for men to treat women as if they were intimates or subordinates.· Opposition forces claim past practice as the basis for treating women with contempt.· These pioneer clinics, which numbered only sixteen even by 1930, had treated only 21,000 women by that time.· Romo treats his women well: Each is finely portrayed, fully explained, lovingly rendered.· Paradoxically, it is even more damaging, until treated ironically by some women or groups of women.· Come to think of it, he was almost being treated as a woman.· The negative answer proposed in this chapter raises some prior questions about policies intended to treat men and women as equals.· Midlands men also believe that women want tenderness rather than dominance, and a man who treats women as equals.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► Dutch treat► go trick or treating
- It went down a treat with the matrons in safe seats like South-west Surrey.
- It seems to be going down a treat.
- We don't take any bomb threat lightly.
- Everybody always treats me like shit.
WORD FAMILYnountreattreatmentmistreatmentadjectiveuntreatedtreatableverbtreatmistreat
1behave towards somebody/something [always + adverb/preposition] to behave towards someone or something in a particular waytreat somebody like/as something She treats me like one of the family. Penny doesn’t think her co-workers treat her as an equal. He treated his automobiles almost as tenderly as he did his wife.badly treated/well treated The prisoners were well treated by their guards.treat somebody with respect/contempt/courtesy etc Despite her seniority, Margot was never treated with much respect.treat somebody like dirt/a dog (=treat someone unkindly and without respect) I don’t know why he stays with her – she treats him like dirt.2deal with something [always + adverb/preposition] to deal with, regard, or consider something in a particular waytreat something as something Please treat this information as completely confidential. She treats everything I say as a joke.treat something favourably/seriously/carefully etc Any complaint about safety standards must be treated very seriously.3illness/injury to try to cure an illness or injury by using drugs, hospital care, operations etc: It was difficult to treat patients because of a shortage of medicine.treat somebody/something with something Nowadays, malaria can be treated with drugs.4buy something for somebody to buy or do something special for someone that you know they will enjoytreat somebody to something We treated Mom to lunch at the Savoy. I treated myself to a new dress.5protect/clean to put a special substance on something or use a chemical process in order to protect, clean, or preserve it: sewage treated so that it can be used as fertilizer → trick or treatCOLLOCATIONSadverbswell· The majority of workers are well treated.badly· Why did he treat me so badly?fairly/unfairly· I just want to be treated fairly.equally· All people should be treated equally, whatever their age.differently· Should girls be treated differently from boys in school?harshly· The guards treated the prisoners harshly.kindly· The world had not treated him kindly.phrasestreat somebody with respect/contempt/suspicion etc· When you treat the kids with respect, they act responsibly.treat somebody like dirt informal (=very badly and with no respect)· He treated this wife like dirt.treat1 verbtreat2 noun
treattreat2 ●●● S3 noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Let me take you to dinner. My treat.
- Listening to trombonist Slide Hampton is a treat.
- Many women think of facials as a treat.
- The cafe serves a surprising assortment of healthy gourmet treats.
- A visit to a good playground is a real treat, offering our children fun and adventure.
- Afterwards, Uncle Ted, who had his suit and Brylcreem on, announced a treat.
- Grunte's treat that evening at the Hospitality Inn was well timed.
- He carefully cuts away the spines and skin protecting the seedy red fruit within, affording a sloppy stolen treat.
- If the meticulous and demanding rescue work succeeds, birdwatchers using the hide will be in for a treat.
- Keep within your 100 calories limit, but, if you choose carefully, you could have two treats!
- Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano got a special treat.
- We hope the trend continues, until such aural excursions become a regular happening rather than a rare treat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY When we were kids, a trip to the beach was a real treat.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Don’t let him treat you like a doormat. The speech went down a treat with members (=members liked it very much). I want you to treat Hayley with kid gloves today. She’s still upset about her father. I’m not surprised she left. He treated her like muck (=very badly). At school the other children treated them like royalty. Birth is a natural process, and should be treated as such.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
When we were kids, a trip to the beach was a real treat. (=something special you do on your birthday)· What would you like to do for a birthday treat?
· The results of the survey should be treated with caution.
· The opinions of the public should not be ignored or treated with contempt.
· She treated these accusations with the contempt they deserved.
· The disease can be treated with antibiotics.
· The drug is used to treat lung disorders.
Don’t let him treat you like a doormat. The speech went down a treat with members (=members liked it very much).· Each student must be treated as an individual.
· Antibiotics are used to treat the infection.
· The injury was treated at the local hospital.
I want you to treat Hayley with kid gloves today. She’s still upset about her father. I’m not surprised she left. He treated her like muck (=very badly). (=try to cure their illness or injury)· Patients are treated in terms of priority.
· Everyone has a right to be treated with respect.
At school the other children treated them like royalty. Birth is a natural process, and should be treated as such.· That really was a great treat.· The greatest treat though is to see Van with John Lee Hooker.· My dear, it is a great treat for me to have a girl in the house.
· For occasional treats I was taken on the three-mile trip to Lovettsville and there had my first glimpse of urban splendors.· Make use of plentiful social reinforcers and the occasional treat by way of acknowledging your child's continuing efforts.· Some might even be in fairly monogamous relationships, for whom the baths were simply an occasional treat.· Foods need to be as varied as conveniently possible, and occasional treats such as live artemia will be enthusiastically relished.· A herbivore, it likes lettuce, peas, and spinach, with the occasional treat of chopped prawn.
· Since then she had learned that pickle or sauce was a very rare treat.· We hope the trend continues, until such aural excursions become a regular happening rather than a rare treat.· The butter was a rare treat.· You've got everything planned: a rare treat.· It was rare treat, and it helped elevate the film to special status.
· Porridge with golden syrup was a real treat in Walworth.· This was a real treat for me.· The first outsiders were in for a real treat.· A visit to a good playground is a real treat, offering our children fun and adventure.· The one score and three who turned up to see the morning game against Dorning had a real treat.· That would make Sunday tea a real cockney treat.· Every morning he prepares a range of at least 20 sweets, which go down a real treat.· The occasional trip to a swimming pool is a real treat for most families.
· Emily, as a special treat, was staying over at a school-friend's.· Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano got a special treat.· Include prawns for a special treat or add chicken or ham for a really substantial meal.· Those of us standing at the top of Mount Rose ski area, however, were in for a special treat.· But first that special treat - a car journey.· Cost, unfortunately, is quite high, but they are a special treat.· Mr Jackson drives me in his car sometimes for a special treat.· Or reading aloud can be a special treat on Friday nights, or holidays, or rainy Saturdays.
· And there's no better way to keep warm than to tuck into a tasty treat or two.· Here's the lowdown on these tasty treats: Wraps are the ideal meal for people on the go.· Vegemite is a tasty treat foreign tourists will want to bring home.
NOUN· It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week.· For a child of five this was a terrifying experience, although it was meant to be a birthday treat.· It had been a special eighteenth birthday treat for Ashi.· Friends bought her the ticket as a birthday treat.· Some birthday treat it is too.
VERB· It was like giving myself a little treat, like say buying a bottle of wine.· She can praise him and give him a little treat.· I was so happy I decided to give her a treat.· I thought how nice he was and decided to give him a treat and sit on his lap.· If the animal sits, give it the treat and repeat this pattern about 20 times.
· Much funnier than Tarzan or Hercules, this works a treat because the hero, Emperor Kuzco, is an anti-hero.· I bet it works a treat.· I repeated a few times, and it worked a treat - on a window as well.· It's another first-rate conversion that works a treat on the Game Gear.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► Dutch treat► go trick or treating
- Let's go out for dinner - my treat this time.
- We get ice cream every Friday - that's my treat.
- It seems to be going down a treat.
- It went down a treat with the matrons in safe seats like South-west Surrey.
- As usual, she looked a treat.
- Don't he look a treat!
- I bet it works a treat.
- I must say, Gwen, your garden looks a treat.
- I repeated a few times, and it worked a treat - on a window as well.
- It's another first-rate conversion that works a treat on the Game Gear.
- Much funnier than Tarzan or Hercules, this works a treat because the hero, Emperor Kuzco, is an anti-hero.
- It went down a treat with the matrons in safe seats like South-west Surrey.
- It seems to be going down a treat.
- We don't take any bomb threat lightly.
- Everybody always treats me like shit.
WORD FAMILYnountreattreatmentmistreatmentadjectiveuntreatedtreatableverbtreatmistreat
1[countable] something special that you give someone or do for them because you know they will enjoy itas a treat Steven took his son to a cricket match as a birthday treat.2[singular] an event that gives you a lot of pleasure and is usually unexpected: When we were kids, a trip to the beach was a real treat.3[countable] a special food that tastes good, especially one that you do not eat very often: The cafe serves an assortment of gourmet treats.4my treat spoken used to tell someone that you will pay for something such as a meal for them: Let’s go out to lunch – my treat.5go down a treat British English informal if something goes down a treat, people like it very much: That new vegetarian restaurant seems to be going down a treat.6look/work a treat British English informal to look very good or work very well: The sports ground looked a treat, with all the flags flying.