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treat
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- pronunciation:
- trit
- parts of speech:
- verb, noun
- features:
- Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
treats, treating, treated |
| definition 1: |
How you treat someone is how you behave toward them. If you treat your little brother well, you are nice to him and do nice things for him. When you treat your cat or dog well, you are kind and gentle to them, and you take good care of them.
Ben always complains when he has to stay with his aunt. He says she treats him like a baby.
- synonyms:
- relate to
- similar words:
- deal with, handle
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| definition 2: |
If people treat something as important, they look at it as an important thing and they deal with it in a serious way. If people don't treat something as important, they might just forget about it.
My dad treated my problem as serious. He didn't laugh at me like my friends did.The government treated the information as top secret and only a few people knew about it.- synonyms:
- deal with, handle
- similar words:
- cope with, manage, process, represent
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| definition 3: |
When someone like a doctor or nurse treats a person, they take care of them when they are sick.
Doctors treat many different patients every day.- synonyms:
- nurse
- similar words:
- take care of
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| definition 4: |
When a doctor treats a disease or injury, they do the best thing they can to make it go away. When a doctor treats your illness, you usually get better.
Linnea fell from a tree and got a bad cut on her leg. Her doctor treated the cut, and now it is healing.Doctors treat diseases in very different ways now from how they treated diseases a hundred years ago.
- synonyms:
- cure, heal, relieve, remedy
- similar words:
- attend, minister, nurse, patch
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| definition 5: |
If someone treats you to a meal or to something fun, they pay for it for you.
Alyssa's grandfather treated her and her brother to ice cream when they went to the beach.- similar words:
- entertain
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| definition 6: |
When people treat something, they do something to it to get a particular result. For example, they might treat something to make it cleaner, or look nicer, or stay in good condition longer. People often use some kind of substance to treat things. The substance might be natural or made from chemicals.
The water from the lake is treated, and then it is clean enough to use for drinking.The roads are treated with salt in the winter. Salt helps to melt the ice and snow.Treating the wood preserves it for a long time. |
| related words: |
criticize, cure, dress, heal, refine, wax |
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
A treat is something special that you enjoy or that makes you feel good. Treats are often things that you really like but you don't get to have all the time.
David's family never has pizza, so it's always a treat for David if someone has it at their birthday party.We saved a bone from the restaurant as a treat for our dog.Leah's family don't go to the beach very often, so when they go, it is a big treat for everyone.- similar words:
- luxury, pleasure, present
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| definition 2: |
If your grandmother takes you to the movies as her treat, it means that she takes you to the movies and she pays for it.
My uncle took all of us to the amusement park and told my mom that it was his treat. |
| derivation: |
treatable (adj.) |
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