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- v interact in a certain way
- v subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
- v provide treatment for
The doctor treated my broken leg
The patient must be treated right away or she will die - v act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- v provide with a gift or entertainment
Grandmother always treated us to the circus - v provide with choice or abundant food or drink
She treated her houseguests with good food every night - v engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement
- v regard or consider in a specific way
I treated his advances as a joke - a subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent
the sludge of treated sewage can be used as fertilizer
treated timbers resist rot
treated fabrics resist wrinkling - a given medical care or treatment; if left untreated it lasts two weeks"
a treated cold is usually gone in 14 days - a made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
- If treated properly, she adds, "biologically, they can be restored.
- Because some of its treated wastewater is injected directly into its reservoirs, residents are effectively drinking water that is mixed with highly treated sewage.
- But by 2005, more than 1 million new patients were being treated, and the total in Africa had increased eightfold.