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单词 treat
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treatverb

uk/triːt/us/triːt/

treat verb (DEAL WITH)

B2 [ T usually + adv/prep ] to behave towards someone or deal with something in a particular way:

My parents treated us all the same when we were kids.
He treated his wife very badly.
It's wrong to treat animals as if they had no feelings.
I treat remarks like that with the contempt that they deserve.

More examples

  • Many companies still treat their management staff better than their workers.
  • You really should treat your parents with more respect.
  • These men's magazines just treat women as playthings.
  • We try to treat our students as individuals.
  • All information will be treated as strictly confidential.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Behaving, interacting and behaviour

  • -behaved
  • as ye sow, so shall ye reap idiom
  • attachment disorder
  • attitude
  • bearing
  • bedside manner
  • behave
  • carry on
  • ism
  • manner
  • mannered
  • mannerism
  • meme
  • model
  • sauce
  • turn
  • turn sth on
  • way
  • what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander idiom
  • yourself

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treat verb (GIVE MEDICAL CARE)

B2 [ T ] to use drugs, exercises, etc. to cure a person of a disease or heal an injury:

He is being treated for a rare skin disease.
Western medicine tends to treat the symptoms and not the cause.

More examples

  • The farmer called the vet out to treat a sick cow.
  • Laboratory tests suggest that the new drug may be used to treat cancer.
  • Two firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation.
  • At that time I worked in a small hospital where I was treating shell-shocked soldiers.
  • Antihistamine is often used to treat hay fever and insect bites.

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Medical treatment: treating & caring for people

  • attention
  • bedside manner
  • bring
  • care
  • care for sb
  • domiciliary
  • eye
  • first-line treatment
  • keep your/an eye on sth/sb idiom
  • mind
  • minister
  • minister to sb
  • modality
  • nurse
  • patch sb/sth up
  • referral
  • section
  • set sb up
  • soothe
  • tend

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treat verb (PAY FOR)

B2 [ T ] to buy or pay for something for another person:

Put your money away - I'm going to treat you (to this).
I'm going to treat myself to (= buy for myself) a new pair of sandals.

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Buying & selling - general words

  • all-you-can-eat
  • barter
  • black market
  • bottom
  • brokerage
  • channel
  • cold-calling
  • desk research
  • first refusal
  • high street
  • market share
  • pawn
  • pay
  • supply and demand idiom
  • the grey market
  • trade
  • trade route
  • trading
  • transaction
  • under the counter idiom

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Paying money

treat verb (PUT ON)

[ T ] to put a special substance on material such as wood, cloth, metal, etc. or put it through a special process, in order to protect it from damage or decay:

The material has been treated with resin to make it waterproof.

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Covering and adding layers

  • asphalt
  • bestrew
  • binder
  • blanket
  • blindfold
  • carpet
  • coat
  • fall over sth/sb
  • film
  • film over
  • fur
  • gild
  • gum sth up
  • inlay
  • pad
  • render
  • seal
  • swathe
  • whitewash
  • wreathe

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Industrial processing

Idiom(s)

treat sb like dirt
treat sb like royalty

treatnoun

uk/triːt/us/triːt/

treat noun (SPECIAL EXPERIENCE)

C2 [ C ] a special and enjoyable occasion or experience:

We're going to Italy for the weekend - it's my birthday treat.
As a special treat, I'll take you to my favourite restaurant.

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Pleasure and happiness

  • abandon
  • afterglow
  • bed
  • bed of roses idiom
  • bliss
  • delirium
  • exaltation
  • exult
  • feast
  • fulfilment
  • fun
  • gaiety
  • goody
  • jovial
  • joy
  • joyful
  • joyous
  • jubilation
  • savour
  • stardust

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Celebrations, parties & special occasions

treat noun (PAY FOR)

my, your, etc. treat [ S ]

an occasion when I, you, etc. buy or pay for something for another person:

No, you paid for dinner last time - this is my treat.

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Paying money

  • ante
  • chargeable
  • congestion charge
  • demurrage
  • disburse
  • discharge
  • disgorge
  • fork
  • fork out sth
  • overspend
  • pay up
  • pick up the bill/tab idiom
  • put sth down 1
  • repayable
  • self-financing
  • sink
  • spring
  • square
  • tip
  • worth

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Buying & selling - general words

Idiom(s)

a treat
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