treated

5 definitions • 9 examples

past simple and past participle of

to behave towards someone or deal with something in a particular way:

My parents treated us all the same when we were kids.

He treated his wife very badly.

treat someone/something as if It's wrong to treat animals as if they had no feelings.

treat something with something I treat remarks like that with the contempt that they deserve.

to use drugs, exercises, etc. to cure a person of a disease or heal an injury:

be treated for He is being treated for a rare skin disease.

treat a symptom Western medicine tends to treat the symptoms and not the cause.

to buy or pay for something for another person:

treat someone (to something) Put your money away - I'm going to treat you (to this).

treat yourself to something I'm going to treat myself to (= buy for myself) a new pair of sandals.

to put a special substance on material such as wood, cloth, metal, etc. or put it through a special process, in order to protect it from damage or decay:

be treated with The material has been treated with resin to make it waterproof.