treat

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To behave towards or deal with someone or something in a particular way.

   She treats her employees with great respect.

2. 2
   verb

   To give someone medical care for an illness or injury.

   The doctor treated my broken leg.

3. 3
   verb

   To pay for something nice for someone as a gift or special favour.

   Grandmother always treated us to the circus.

4. 4
   verb

   To deal with a subject in writing or speech.

   The article treats feminism as a quintessentially modern movement.

Common collocations

• treat a burn Verb + noun

From Middle English treten, from Anglo-Norman treter, Old French tretier, traiter, from Latin tractāre (“to pull", "to manage”), from the past participle stem of trahere (“to draw", "to pull”).

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