| acupuncture |
the practice of relieving pain or curing a disease by putting needles into certain parts of the body. Acupuncture is a traditional way to treat disease in China. |
| alien |
If people treat you like an alien, they treat you like you are not part of their group. If you feel like an alien, you feel like you don't fit in with the people around you. [1/5 definitions] |
| -ate1 |
a suffix that means "to act upon" or "treat with." [1/3 definitions] |
| baby |
to treat like a baby or child; spoil. [1/6 definitions] |
| develop |
to treat with chemicals so as to create a photographic image. [1/6 definitions] |
| disapprove |
If you disapprove of something, you think it is bad and wrong. Most people disapprove of people being cruel to animals, for example. Let's say your parents disapprove of one of your friends. That means that they feel this person will not be a good friend for you. They believe they will not treat you well, or they will influence you in some bad way. |
| discriminate |
to judge or treat someone unfairly because he or she belongs to a particular group or category of people (usually followed by "against"). [1/2 definitions] |
| disrespect |
to consider or treat with a lack of respect. [1/2 definitions] |
| doctor |
a person trained and licensed to treat sick people or animals. [1/2 definitions] |
| dress |
to clean or put a bandage on; treat. [1/7 definitions] |
| emphasis |
When you put emphasis on something, you attach importance to it, and you give it a lot attention. In speaking or writing, you do things to let other people know that you think this particular thing is important. If you put emphasis on something in your life, you treat it as important. You focus a lot of your attention on it. |
| fairly |
When you act fairly, you act in way that treats people all in the same way. You don't treat one person or group better than another. [1/3 definitions] |
| humane |
If people act in a humane way, they treat other people or animals with kindness and are not cruel to them. |
| ill |
When you speak ill of someone, you speak in an unfriendly or unkind way about them. If you treat someone ill, you treat them badly. You do unkind things to them. [1/5 definitions] |
| insulin |
any of the common substitutes for this hormone, taken from an animal pancreas and used to treat diabetes. [1/2 definitions] |
| insult |
to speak to or treat without respect or in a way that hurts feelings. [1/2 definitions] |
| make light of |
to treat as or consider silly or not important. |
| massage |
to treat by rubbing the body; give a massage to. [1/2 definitions] |
| mean2 |
When someone is mean, they do things that are not kind to other people or animals. They treat them in a way that hurts them or makes them sad. Some people are nice sometimes and mean at other times. [1/3 definitions] |
| medicine |
a drug or other substance used to treat a disease, injury, pain, or other symptoms. [1/2 definitions] |
| mercy |
If someone is suffering and you show mercy to them or treat them with mercy, it means you treat them in a kind way and try to stop their suffering Sometimes showing mercy means to stop treating someone in a cruel way oneself or to make others stop being cruel. [1/3 definitions] |