Definition of treat

"treat" in the noun sense

1. dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat

something considered choice to eat

2. treat

an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight

"treat" in the verb sense

1. treat, handle, do by

interact in a certain way

"Do right by her"

"Treat him with caution, please"

"Handle the press reporters gently"

2. process, treat

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"

3. treat, care for

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"

4. cover, treat, handle, plow, deal, address

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"

5. treat

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"

6. regale, treat

provide with choice or abundant food or drink

"Don't worry about the expensive wine

7. treat

engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement

"they had to treat with the King"

8. treat

regard or consider in a specific way

"I treated his advances as a joke"

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Quotations for treat

I'll never brew drink to treat drunkards. [ Proverb ]

Would you treat your horse with a peck of oysters? [ Proverb ]

It is a madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf. [ Proverb ]

Receive your thoughts as guests, and treat your desires as children. [ Chinese Proverb ]

We treat fortune like a mistress - the more she yields, the more we demand. [ Mme. Roland ]

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends.
Dress is a table of your contents. [ Lavater ]

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. [ Froude ]

It is the mark of a great man to treat trifles as trifles, and important matters as important. [ Lessing ]

Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well. [ Epictetus ]

We are not that we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for that we are capable of being. [ Thoreau ]

The pains we take in books or arts which treat of things remote from the necessaries of life is a busy idleness. [ Fuller ]

We treat God with irreverence by banishing him from our thoughts, not by referring to his will on slight occasions. [ John Ruskin ]

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended. [ Thoreau ]

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions. [ Goethe ]

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. [ Cicero ]

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon. [ Coleridge ]

It is in the time of trouble, when some to whom we may have looked for consolation and encouragement regard us with coldness, and others, perhaps, treat us with hostility, that the warmth of the friendly heart and the support of the friendly hand acquire increased value and demand additional gratitude. [ Bishop Mant ]

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. [ Colton ]

treat in Scrabble®

The word treat is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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treat in Words With Friends™

The word treat is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

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Word Growth involving treat

Shorter words in treat

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Longer words containing treat

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