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Treated

adjective

1.

Subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent. "Treated timbers resist rot" , "Treated fabrics resist wrinkling"

2.

Given medical care or treatment.

3.

Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment. Synonyms: hardened, tempered, toughened. "Tempered glass"

Treat

verb

(past & past part. treated; pres. part. treating)

1.

Interact in a certain way. Synonyms: do by, handle. "Treat him with caution, please" , "Handle the press reporters gently"

2.

Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition. Synonym: process. "Process hair" , "Treat the water so it can be drunk" , "Treat the lawn with chemicals" , "Treat an oil spill"

3.

Provide treatment for. Synonym: care for. "The nurses cared for the bomb victims" , "The patient must be treated right away or she will die" , "Treat the infection with antibiotics"

4.

Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression. Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, plow. "The course covered all of Western Civilization" , "The new book treats the history of China"

5.

Provide with a gift or entertainment. "I like to treat myself to a day at a spa when I am depressed"

6.

Provide with choice or abundant food or drink. Synonym: regale. "She treated her houseguests with good food every night"

7.

Engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement.

8.

Regard or consider in a specific way.

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"Treated" Quotes from Famous Books

... almost grudgingly. He lay back upon the pillow. "I can pay her the money sometime." His gaunt eyes were staring into the dark. "But I can never make up to her for the way I treated her." ...

— Uncle William - The Man Who Was Shif'less • Jennette Lee

... returned from the New Bailey, where one of the turn-outs had been tried for a cruel assault on a poor north-country weaver, who had attempted to work at the low price. They were indignant, and justly so, at the merciless manner in which the poor fellow had been treated; and their indignation at wrong, took (as it often does) the extreme form of revenge. They felt as if, rather than yield to the body of men who were resorting to such cruel measures towards their fellow-workmen, they, the masters, would sooner relinquish all the benefits to ...

— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell

... a situation. The Brethes knew nothing and thought nothing. The girl, unaware that these were my own people, saw me being used and treated as a chauffeur by four strangers, while she looked on and got the thanks; and the thought made her writhe. Berry and the others found me about to call them "Sir" and "Madam" and to serve them by mending my own ...

— The Brother of Daphne • Dornford Yates

... spend some days in procuring the necessary passport and other official facilities for my journey. It happened just then that the Stage Society gave a performance of this little play. It opened the heart of every official to me. I have always been treated with distinguished consideration in my contracts with bureaucracy during the war; but on this occasion I found myself persona grata in the highest degree. There was only one word when the formalities were disposed of; and that was "We are up against Augustus all ...

— Augustus Does His Bit • George Bernard Shaw

... another cause. The printing press which gives us a cheap Bible and Prayer Book, and a vast amount of pure, useful reading, also sends out much that is dangerous, and positively wicked. The most holy mysteries of the Christian faith are held up to mockery and ridicule, and treated as old wives' tales; and the restless spirit of the age leads people to read these things, and to have their faith shaken and their ideas confused. Thus we find nowadays people arguing and doubting about doctrines which at one time were taken for granted. One says, perhaps we ...

— The Life of Duty, v. 2 - A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles • H. J. Wilmot-Buxton

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