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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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... arrived at Waterval, which is fourteen miles to the north of Pretoria. Here were confined three thousand soldiers, whose fare had certainly been of the scantiest, though in other respects they appear to have been well treated. [Footnote: Further information unfortunately shows that in the case of the sick and of the Colonial prisoners the treatment was by no means good.] Nine hundred of their comrades had been removed by the Boers, but Porter's cavalry was in time to release ...

— The Great Boer War • Arthur Conan Doyle

... Elizabeth went on, "The way I have been received and the way we all treated Mrs. Holt will be the greatest help to me in becoming what I hope to become, a real Westerner. I might have lived a long time in the West and not have understood many things if I had not fallen into your hands. ...

— Letters on an Elk Hunt • Elinore Pruitt Stewart

... in Pladda, his scene of operations; his men ran away from him, there was at least a talk of calling in the Sheriff. 'I fear,' writes my grandfather, 'you have been too indulgent, and I am sorry to add that men do not answer to be too well treated, a circumstance which I have experienced, and which you will learn as you go on in business.' I wonder, was not Charles Peebles himself a case in point? Either death, at least, or disappointment and discharge, must have ...

— Records of a Family of Engineers • Robert Louis Stevenson

... was both her playmate and her slave. It is the custom among the wealthy to purchase for each daughter a companion who plays with her as a child, becomes a companion in youth and her maid when she marries. These slaves are usually treated well, and when this one became ill the members of the family visited her often, taking her such dainties as might tempt her appetite. As a result I had to administer antitoxin to eight of the younger members of the household, so careless had they ...

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