单词 | treat |
释义 | treat (once / 33 pages) 1v 2vn 3v 4v 5v If you've been working hard and living thriftily for months on end, give yourself a treat: take the night off and go out to dinner and a movie. One sense of treat has to do with pleasures and special occasions. You might treat your mother to a pedicure, or give your dog a tasty treat. Treat can also mean "to carry on negotiations," (the meaning that feeds into treaty), or "to take care of." A doctor treats your illness with medication. If you treat a boy as an adult, that means you act as though he is one, even if he's only 16. Treat him carefully! WORD FAMILYtreat: entreat, ill-treat, mistreat, treated, treater, treating, treatment, treats+/entreat: entreated, entreating, entreats/ill-treat: ill-treating/mistreat: mistreated, mistreating, mistreatment, mistreats/mistreatment: mistreatments/treated: ill-treated, retreated, untreated/treater: treaters/treatment: ill-treatment, treatments USAGE EXAMPLES“Under international standards, construction companies in the Gulf are not only responsible for how they treat their direct employees,” Lynch said. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Hence, I oversee our dental residents as they treat patients at the urgent-care clinic. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) He is a genuine person who lives by a strict moral code, and he expects to be treated fairly. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition treat the water so it can be drunk treat the lawn with chemicals treat an oil spill Syn|Hypo|Hyper process propagate cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering iodise, iodizetreat with iodine nitratetreat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate tanktreat in a tank aerate, oxygenate, oxygenise, oxygenizeimpregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen mercerise, mercerizetreat to strengthen and improve the luster malttreat with malt or malt extract fluoridate, fluoridise, fluoridizesubject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride creosotetreat with creosote chlorinatetreat or combine with chlorine carbonatetreat with carbon dioxide camphoratetreat with camphor bromate, brominatetreat with bromine ammoniatetreat with ammonia irradiate, rayexpose to radiation scaldtreat with boiling water refinetreat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition nitrify, nitrogenise, nitrogenizetreat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound reverberatetreat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace currytreat by incorporating fat seedsprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain dosetreat with an agent; add (an agent) to sulfur, sulphurtreat with sulphur in order to preserve vulcanise, vulcanizesubject to vulcanization chrometreat with a chromium compound bituminise, bituminizetreat with bitumen Agenise, Agenizeage or bleach flour with Agene (nitrogen trichloride) runcause to perform carboxylatetreat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid beneficiateprocess (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction digestconvert food into absorbable substances fume, fumigatetreat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests air-conditioncontrol the humidity and temperature of inoculateinsert a bud for propagation bombarddirect high energy particles or radiation against reruncause to perform again stomachbear to eat predigestdigest (food) beforehand affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on have an effect upon 2v provide treatment for 2The doctor treated my broken leg The patient must be treated right away or she will die Treat the infection with antibiotics Syn|Hypo care for hyperventilate produce hyperventilation in massagegive a massage to purgeexcrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body) correcttreat a defect insufflatetreat by blowing a powder or vapor into a bodily cavity detox, detoxifytreat for alcohol or drug dependence irrigatesupply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting iodise, iodizetreat with iodine so as to prevent infection doctorgive medical treatment to vetprovide (a person) with medical care nursetry to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury manipulatetreat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposes administer, dispensegive or apply (medications) relieve, remedyprovide relief for dressapply a bandage or medication to splintsupport with a splint operate, operate onperform surgery on medicate, medicinetreat medicinally, treat with medicine bleed, leech, phlebotomise, phlebotomizedraw blood cup, transfusetreat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin shocksubject to electrical shocks packtreat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood burn, cauterise, cauterizeburn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent analyse, analyze, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyzesubject to psychoanalytic treatment desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsexmake infertile face-lift, liftperform cosmetic surgery on someone's face trephineoperate on with a trephine vetprovide veterinary care for transfusegive a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to digitalizeadminister digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects plaster, poulticedress by covering with a therapeutic substance bandagedress by covering or binding venesectpractice venesection dose, drugadminister a drug to salveapply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing inject, shootgive an injection to galvanise, galvanizestimulate (muscles) by administering a shock givegive (as medicine) 1v 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 Syn|Hyper regale provide with choice or abundant food or drink gift, give, present give as a present; make a gift of 2v 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper regale wine treat to wine alcoholise, alcoholizesubject to the influence of alcohol feast, feedgratify cater, ply, provide, supply give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance 3n an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight Hyper happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent an event that happens 4n something considered choice to eat 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw choice morsel, tidbit, titbit a small tasty bit of food savory, savouryan aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre confection, sweeta food rich in sugar ambrosia, nectar(classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal gelatin, jellyan edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods bone marrow, marrowvery tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones calf's-foot jellya savory jelly made with gelatin obtained by boiling calves' feet confectionerycandy and other sweets considered collectively confiturepreserved or candied fruit sweetmeata sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry) candy, confecta rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts hardbakea British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds chewing gum, guma preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing candied apple, candy apple, caramel apple, taffy apple, toffee applean apple that is covered with a candy-like substance (usually caramelized sugar) center, centrethe sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering comfitcandy containing a fruit or nut maraschino, maraschino cherrycherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur nonpareilcolored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies gelatin dessertjellied dessert made with gelatin and fruit juice or water aspicsavory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals a source of materials to nourish the body 1v regard or consider in a specific way I treated his advances as a joke Syn|Hyper do by, handle interact in a certain way react, respond show a response or a reaction to something 2v interact in a certain way 4Treat him with caution, please Syn|Hypo|Hyper do by, handle address, cover, deal, handle, plow act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression bemock, mock treat with contempt cut, disregard, ignore, snubrefuse to acknowledge wrongtreat unjustly; do wrong to handle with kid gloveshandle with great care and sensitivity criminalizetreat as a criminal nursetreat carefully strong-armhandle roughly ride roughshod, run roughshodtreat inconsiderately or harshly upstagetreat snobbishly, put in one's place rough-housetreat in a rough or boisterous manner brutalise, brutalizetreat brutally do well bytreat with respect and consideration gloss over, skate over, skimp over, slur over, smooth overtreat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat, steptreat badly baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoiltreat with excessive indulgence bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twitharass with persistent criticism or carping blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roastsubject to laughter or ridicule deridetreat or speak of with contempt aggrieveinfringe on the rights of kick aroundtreat badly; abuse sandbagtreat harshly or unfairly victimise, victimizemake a victim of interact act together or towards others or with others v act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression 5The new book treats the history of China Syn|Hypo|Hyper address, cover, deal, handle, plow do by, handle interact in a certain way comprehend, cover, embrace, encompassinclude in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory theologise, theologize treat from a theological viewpoint or render theological in character discourse, discuss, talk aboutto consider or examine in speech or writing descanttalk at great length about something of one's interest talk shopdiscuss matters that are related to work broach, initiate, moot bring up a topic for discussion v engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement they had to treat with the King Hyper negociate confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement |
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