treat
1. something considered choice to eat
• Syn:
dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw
• Derivationally related forms:
dainty (for: dainty)
• Hypernyms:
nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment,
alimentation, victuals
• Hyponyms:
choice morsel, tidbit, titbit, savory, savoury,
sweet, confection, ambrosia, nectar, gelatin, jelly,
marrow, bone marrow
2. an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight
• Hypernyms:
happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
1. interact in a certain way (Freq. 30)
- Do right by her
- Treat him with caution, please
- Handle the press reporters gently
• Syn:
handle, do by
• Hypernyms:
interact
• Hyponyms:
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 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
• Verb Group:
cover, handle, plow, deal, address
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition (Freq. 23)
- process cheese
- process hair
- treat the water so it can be drunk
- "treat the lawn with chemicals"
- treat an oil spill
• Syn:
process
• Derivationally related forms:
treatment, processor (for: process), processing (for: process)
• Hypernyms:
affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
• Hyponyms:
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, sulphur, sulfur,
vulcanize, vulcanise, chrome, bituminize, bituminise, Agenize,
Agenise, run, carboxylate, beneficiate, digest, fumigate,
fume, air-condition
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
3. provide treatment for (Freq. 17)
- 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
• Syn:
care for
• Derivationally related forms:
treatment
• Hyponyms:
hyperventilate, massage, purge, correct, insufflate,
detox, 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
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Did he treat his foot?
4. act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression (Freq. 10)
- This book deals with incest
- The course covered all of Western Civilization
- The new book treats the history of China
• Syn:
cover, handle, plow, deal, address
• Derivationally related forms:
treatment, coverage (for: cover)
• Hypernyms:
broach, initiate
• Hyponyms:
theologize, theologise, discourse, talk about, discuss
• Verb Group:
handle, do by, embrace, encompass, comprehend, cover
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP (for: deal)
5. provide with a gift or entertainment (Freq. 3)
- Grandmother always treated us to the circus
- I like to treat myself to a day at a spa when I am depressed
• Hypernyms:
give, gift, present
• Verb Group:
regale
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
6. 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:
regale
• Hypernyms:
provide, supply, ply, cater
• Hyponyms:
wine, alcoholize, feed, feast
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody with something
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
7. engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement
- they had to treat with the King
• Derivationally related forms:
treater
• Hypernyms:
negociate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
8. regard or consider in a specific way
- I treated his advances as a joke
• Hypernyms:
react, respond
• Verb Group:
handle, do by
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something PP
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