treat
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Definitions
                    Noun
                    
                something considered choice to eat
                
                    Noun
                    
                an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight
                
                    Verb
                    
                interact in a certain way; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently"
                
                    Verb
                    
                subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill"
                
                    Verb
                    
                provide treatment for; "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"
                
                    Verb
                    
                act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"
                
                    Verb
                    
                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"
                
                    Verb
                    
                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"
                
                    Verb
                    
                engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement; "they had to treat with the King"
                
                    Verb
                    
            regard or consider in a specific way; "I treated his advances as a joke"
                Synonyms
More General Terms
                    affect
                    aliment
                    alimentation
                    bear on
                    bear upon
                    broach
                    cater
                    gift
                    give
                    happening
                    impact
                    initiate
                    interact
                    natural event
                    negociate
                    nourishment
                    nutriment
                    nutrition
                    occurrence
                    occurrent
                    ply
                    present
                    provide
                    react
                    respond
                    supply
                    sustenance
                    touch
                    touch on
                    victuals
            
            More Specific Terms
                    abuse
                    administer
                    aerate
                    Agenise
                    Agenize
                    air-condition
                    alcoholize
                    ambrosia
                    ammoniate
                    analyse
                    analyze
                    baby
                    bemock
                    beneficiate
                    bituminise
                    bituminize
                    bleed
                    bone marrow
                    bromate
                    brominate
                    brutalise
                    brutalize
                    burn
                    camphorate
                    carbonate
                    carboxylate
                    cauterise
                    cauterize
                    chlorinate
                    choice morsel
                    chrome
                    cocker
                    coddle
                    confection
                    correct
                    cosset
                    creosote
                    criminalize
                    cup
                    curry
                    cut
                    detox
                    detoxify
                    digest
                    discourse
                    discuss
                    dispense
                    disregard
                    do well by
                    doctor
                    dose
                    dress
                    feast
                    featherbed
                    feed
                    fluoridate
                    fluoridise
                    fluoridize
                    fume
                    fumigate
                    gelatin
                    gloss over
                    handle with kid gloves
                    hyperventilate
                    ignore
                    ill-treat
                    ill-use
                    indulge
                    insufflate
                    iodise
                    iodize
                    irradiate
                    irrigate
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                    leech
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                    manipulate
                    marrow
                    massage
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                    medicine
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                    nitrify
                    nitrogenise
                    nitrogenize
                    nurse
                    operate
                    operate on
                    oxygenate
                    oxygenise
                    oxygenize
                    pack
                    pamper
                    phlebotomise
                    phlebotomize
                    propagate
                    psychoanalyse
                    psychoanalyze
                    purge
                    ray
                    refine
                    relieve
                    remedy
                    reverberate
                    ride roughshod
                    rough-house
                    run
                    run roughshod
                    savory
                    savoury
                    scald
                    seed
                    shock
                    skate over
                    skimp over
                    slur over
                    smooth over
                    snub
                    splint
                    spoil
                    step
                    strong-arm
                    sulfur
                    sulphur
                    sweet
                    talk about
                    tank
                    theologise
                    theologize
                    tidbit
                    titbit
                    transfuse
                    upstage
                    vet
                    vulcanise
                    vulcanize
                    wine
                    wrong