treat

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ big, great, real, special

▪ little

▪

I like to give the girls a little treat every now and then.

▪ occasional, rare

▪ birthday (esp. BrE), Christmas (esp. BrE), festive (esp. BrE), holiday (esp. AmE)

▪ family

▪ delicious, sweet, tasty

▪

Snails are a tasty treat for hedgehogs.

▪ frozen (AmE)

▪ musical, visual

▪ dog (esp. AmE)

VERB + TREAT

▪ give sb

▪ deserve

▪ get

PREPOSITION

▪ as a treat, for a treat

▪

I took the kids to the zoo for a special treat.

PHRASES

▪ be in for a treat, have a treat in store (esp. BrE)

▪

If their latest album is half as good as their last one, we've a real treat in store.

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verb

1 handle sb/sth in a particular way

ADVERB

▪ equally, equitably, fairly, humanely, kindly, leniently, sympathetically, well

▪ abominably, badly, harshly, roughly, shabbily, unfairly, unjustly

▪

They treat their animals quite badly.

▪ seriously

▪

These allegations are being treated very seriously indeed.

▪ accordingly

▪

He is guilty and should be treated accordingly.

▪ in the same way

▪ differently

▪ separately

VERB + TREAT

▪ tend to

▪

Parents still tend to treat boys differently from girls.

PREPOSITION

▪ as

▪

the tendency to treat older people as helpless

▪ like

▪

Don't treat me like a child!

▪ with

▪

He treated the idea with suspicion.

PHRASES

▪ deserve to be treated

▪

They deserve to be treated with patience and respect.

2 give sb medical treatment

ADVERB

▪ easily

▪ appropriately, properly

▪ effectively, successfully

▪ medically, surgically

VERB + TREAT

▪ be difficult to

▪ use sth to

PREPOSITION

▪ for

▪

She was treated for cuts and bruises.

▪ with

▪

We can treat this condition successfully with antibiotics.

PHRASES

▪ be effective in treating sth

▪

The drug is effective at treating depression.

3 use a substance to protect sth

ADVERB

▪ chemically

▪

Chemically treated hair can become dry and brittle.

PREPOSITION

▪ for

▪

You need to treat this wood for woodworm.

▪ with

▪

The timber has been treated with chemicals to preserve it.

Treat is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑drug, ↑staff, ↑vet, ↑veterinarian

Treat is used with these nouns as the object: ↑abscess, ↑acne, ↑addiction, ↑ailment, ↑alcoholism, ↑allergy, ↑arthritis, ↑asthma, ↑burn, ↑cancer, ↑colic, ↑condition, ↑constipation, ↑corn, ↑depression, ↑disease, ↑disorder, ↑HIV, ↑illness, ↑impotence, ↑incontinence, ↑indigestion, ↑infection, ↑infertility, ↑injury, ↑leather, ↑malaria, ↑matter, ↑migraine, ↑pain, ↑patient, ↑phobia, ↑schizophrenia, ↑sewage, ↑sick, ↑sickness, ↑slave, ↑subject, ↑survivor, ↑symptom, ↑syndrome, ↑timber, ↑tumour, ↑victim, ↑waste, ↑wound