treat
Definition of treat:
-
-
part of speech: noun
-
part of speech: verb
To handle in a particular manner: to discourse on: to entertain, as with food or drink, etc.: to manage in the application of remedies: to use.
-
part of speech: verb
To handle or manage in a particular manner in writing or speaking; to discourse; to entertain with food or drink as a compliment; to behave towards; to manage, as a disease, in the application of remedies; in chem., to subject to the action of; to make and receive proposals with a view to settle a claim, adjust differences, & c.; to negotiage.
-
part of speech: noun
An entertainment given as an expression of regard; something which affords much pleasure.
-
part of speech: verb
To handle a subject in writing or speaking: to negotiate: to give an entertainment.
-
Common misspellings:
-
- treath (6.4%)
- treaten (0.9%)
- reat (6.4%)
- treast (1.8%)
- traet (1.8%)
- entise (0.9%)
- streat (1.8%)
- tret (11.8%)
- adress (0.9%)
- treet (12.7%)
- theat (0.9%)
- reate (0.9%)
- treate (10.0%)
- trea (3.6%)
- trreat (1.8%)
- treates (0.9%)
- abord (0.9%)
- trat (28.2%)
- trear (1.8%)
- trest (1.8%)
- threating (0.9%)
- terat (0.9%)
- treaat (1.8%)
Usage examples for treat:
-
Treat me with respect, if not with kindness.
"The Lookout Man" – B. M. Bower -
I am a frank- spoken man, yes, but I have never failed to treat you with respect.
"Love Under Fire" – Randall Parrish -
O brother, brother, she whispered, with dry lips, how can you treat him so?
"Tom Tufton's Travels" – Evelyn Everett-Green -
It seems to me that when people have known each other as long as you and I there's one comfort at least they may treat themselves to.
"The Awkward Age" – Henry James
