Treat

Definition: Treat

Treat

Noun

1. Something considered choice to eat.

Verb

1. Interact in a certain way; "Do right by her"; "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; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill".

3. 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. Deal with 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. 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. Provide with choice or abundant food or drink; "Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating"; "She treated her houseguests with good food every night".

7. Engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement; "they had to treat with the King".

8. Regard or consider in a specific way; "I treated his advances as a joke".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "treat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Language

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

TREAT

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Treat

Amusement

Recreate, solace, cheer, rejoice; please; interest; treat, regale.

Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat.

Benevolence

Treat well; give comfort, smooth the bed of death; do good, do a good turn; benefit; (goodness); render a service, be of use; aid.

Compact

Treat, negotiate, stipulate, make terms; bargain; (barter).

Conduct

Deal with, have to do with; treat, handle a case; take steps, take measures.

Discourtesy

Verb: be -rude; Adjective: insult; treat with discourtesy; take a name in vain; make bold with, make free with; take a liberty; stare out of countenance, ogle, point at, put to the blush.

Disrespect

Verb: hold in disrespect; (despise); misprize, disregard, slight, trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, laugh in one's sleeve; be disrespectful; Adjective:, be discourteous; treat with disrespect;Noun: set down, put down, browbeat.

Dissertation

Verb: expound upon a subject, dissert upon a subject, descant upon a subject, write upon a subject, touch upon a subject; treat a subject, treat a subject thoroughly, treat of a subject, take up a subject, ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a subject, go into a subject at length, canvass a subject, handle a subject, do justice to a subject.

Identity

Treat as the same, render the same, identical; identify;treat as the same, render the same, identical; identify; recognize the identity of.

Pain

Treat; regale; (physical pleasure); dainty; tidbit; nuts, sauce piquante.

Bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire slake, satiate, quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate; (savory); regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse; take one's fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart,bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire slake, satiate, quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate; (savory); regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse; take one's fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart, warm the cockles of the heart; do one's heart good.

Physical Pleasure

Treat; refreshment, regale; feast; delice; dainty; bonne bouche.

Pleasure

Treat, refreshment; amusement; luxury.

Treat oneself to, solace oneself with.

Severity

Assume, usurp, arrogate, take liberties; domineer, bully; tyrannize, inflict, wreak, stretch a point, put on the screw; be hard upon; bear a heavy hand on, lay a heavy hand on; be down upon, come down upon; ill treat; deal hardly with, deal hard measure to; rule with a rod of iron, chastise with scorpions; dye with blood; oppress, override; trample under foot; tread under foot, tread upon, trample upon, tread down upon, trample down upon; crush under an iron heel, ride roughshod over; rivet the yoke; hold a tight hand, keep a tight hand; force down the throat; coerce; give no quarter; (pitiless) a.

Crosswords: Treat

What did I treat you like (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur)

Mama always knew how to treat me right (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)

It's natural, therefore -correct, even - that they should resent us. How could they do otherwise, when we refused to treat them like fellow human beings (M. Butterfly; writing credit: David Henry Hwang.)

That ain't no way to treat your wife, buddy (Mulholland Dr.; writing credit: David Lynch)

The reason people treat me like I'm nothin' is 'cause I'm nothin' (Dirty Dancing; writing credit: Eleanor Bergstein)

DID I NEVER TREAT YOU RIGHT (Never Ever; performing artist: All Saints)

How could I ever treat my baby that way (Never Keeping Secrets; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface)

Someone who can treat me right (What About Us?; performing artist: Brandy)

Treat you right, be with you day and night (Sometimes; performing artist: Britney spears)

And my heart and soul, and everybody wants to treat me so cold (Lady; performing artist: D'Angelo)

Lord, may others treat me tomorrow as I have treated them today. (references; author: unknown)

Treat people like angels; you will meet some and help make some. (references; author: unknown)

We treat this world of ours as though we had a spare in the trunk. (references; author: unknown)

Treat your friends as you do your pictures: Place them in their best light. (references; author: unknown)

If you treat every situation like a life or death matter, be prepared to die a lot of times. (references; author: unknown)

Trigger Treat (1960)

Dutch Treat (1956)

Trick or Treat (1952)

Treat 'Em Rough (1942)

Dutch Treat (1930)

Treat Her Like A Lady (performing artist: Joe)

TREAT HER RIGHT� (performing artist: Roy Head� )

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Books

• Strong Women, Strong Bones : Everything You Need to Know to Prevent, Treat, and Beat Osteoporosis (reference)

• The Sports Medicine Bible: Prevent, Detect, and Treat Your Sports Injuries Through the Latest Medical Techniques (reference)

• Running Injury-Free: How to Prevent, Treat and Recover from Dozens of Painful Problems (reference)

• The Adonis Complex: How to Identify, Treat and Prevent Body Obsession in Men and Boys (reference)

• Reversing Heart Disease: A Vital New Program to Help Prevent, Treat, and Eliminate Cardiac Problems Without Surgery (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Treat Ear and Respiratory Infections WITHOUT Antibiotics! (reference)

• Treat Your Own Arthritic Hands (reference)

• Treat Your Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (reference)

• Treat Your Own Golfer's Elbow (reference)

• Trick Or Treat (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Treat Me Like Someone Else (reference)

• Treat Me Right (reference)

• Trick Or Treat (1986 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Shanghai: Triple Treat (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Biagiante Double Treat Automatic Homemade Ice Cream Maker (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Shown are polarized crystals photographed through the microscope of the drug 2'3'-dideoxyadenosine, ddA, a drug that is closely related to AZT, azidothymidine. The antiviral effect of ddA against HIV was discovered at the National Cancer Institute, when trying to find a drug to treat patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Credit: Larry Ostby (photographer).

This is Gordon Isaacs, the first patient treated with the linear accelerator (radiation therapy) for retinoblastoma in 1957. Gordon's right eye was removed January 11, 1957 because the cancer had spread. His left eye, however, had only a localized tumor that prompted Henry Kaplan to try to treat it with the electron beam. Gordon is now living in the east bay, and his vision in the left eye is normal. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Computer generated surface view of Gula Mons.For this image, we also have a special treat. Because the vertical scale on theseimages is so exaggerated (a factor of 22.5, remember), we thought you might wantto see what one of them would look like with a more realistic vertical scale.This image ofGula Mons( 8k) has beenaltered to more closely resemble the actual vertical scale. Credit: NASA.

Sign over the cell that housed Dr. Samuel Mudd, controversial doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth following Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Mudd was convicted of helping Booth and served three years of his sentence at Fort Jefferson. He helped treat many Union soldiers during a yellow fever epidemic and was subsequently paroled. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A treatment plant to treat acid water at, 140 gallons per minute gpm. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Treatment plant at Minnesota Flats to treat AMD from the Richmond and Lawson Portals. Water raised PH 1 - 11 to ppt sludge. The sludge was hauled to Brick Flat pit. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A red rose, symbol of love—and tasty treat for spider mites. This issue of the magazine looks at several ARS efforts to keep valuable floral and nursery crops like roses and woody ornamentals safe from the many pests that plague them. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Peggy Greb..

A bowl of berries is a treat for the eye as well as a delight for the palate. But these tasty little morsels happen to be quite tricky to grow, harvest, and handle. These crops tend to have brief growing seasons and are vulnerable to insects, disease, and even birds, so ARS scientists have given them lots of attention. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Laboratory research is helping to find ways to prevent and treat eye disease. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

A laser can treat certain eye diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And that duty which is comprehended in the word honour, requires less obedience, though the obligation be stronger on grown, than younger children: for who can think the command, Children obey your parents, requires in a man, that has children of his own, the same submission to his father, as it does in his yet young children to him; and that by this precept he were bound to obey all his father's commands, if, out of a conceit of authority, he should have the indiscretion to treat him still as a boy? (Second Treatise of Government)

In the case of a federal State, the power of which to enter into conventions on labour matters is subject to limitations, it shall be in the discretion of that Government to treat a draft convention to which such limitations apply as a recommendation only, and the provisions of this Article with respect to recommendations shall apply in such case. (reference)

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I treat you without ceremony, Mr. Knightley

The Thenardiers felt doubly authorised to treat her thus, as the mother, who still remained at M__ sur M__, began to be remiss in her payments

No, I treat you as your grandfather treated me when I was a young chap

And thus ambassadors would be qualified to treat with foreign princes or ministers of state, to whose tongues they were utter strangers

Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

You may need medicine to treat the sores. (references)

Many drugs are available to treat glaucoma. (references)

Various drugs are used to treat the disease. (references)

Business

It is used primarily to treat inorganic liquid waste. (references)

Most manufacturing companies directly treat, recover, and recycle their waste. (references)

Most industrial sites are supplied raw water from the authorities and they treat it themselves. (references)

Children

Algeria

Hospitals treat numerous child-abuse cases every year, but many cases go unreported. (references)

Cameroon

Society tended to treat those with disabilities as tainted, and many persons felt that providing assistance is the responsibility of churches or foreign NGO's. (references)

Costa Rica

Traditional attitudes and the inclination to treat such crimes as misdemeanors sometimes hamper legal proceedings against those who commit crimes against children. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

Hindu groups such as the RSS are pushing for a uniform civil code that would treat members of all religions alike. (references)

United Kingdom

The Church of Scientology asserts that it faces discrimination because the Government does not treat Scientology as a religion. (references)

Turkey

In June Prime Minister Ecevit called on civil servants to treat civil society and NGO's with tolerance rather than restrictions and prohibitions, stressing the need to comply with EU standards. (references)

Economic History

Chad

Chad appears to treat legal commercial matters with other countries on a case-by-case basis. (references)

Finland

The basic strategy for the privatization process has been to treat each company as an individual case. (references)

Vietnam

There is a demand from hospitals and a need from society to treat wastewater flowing out from hospital bases. (references)

Human Rights

Vietnam

Prison guards sometimes treat prisoners badly and frequently beat them. (references)

Mauritania

For commercial and other modern issues not addressed specifically by Shari'a, the law and courts treat women and men equally. (references)

Afghanistan

During the attack on Yakawlang, eyewitnesses reported that both sides violated the neutrality of medical facilities and failed to treat civilians as noncombatants. (references)

Indigenous People

Cameroon

While no legal discrimination exists, other groups often treat Pygmies as inferior and sometimes subject them to unfair and exploitative labor practices. (references)

Canada

Indian leaders maintain that a sovereign Quebec would treat Indians as another ethnic minority instead of as sovereign nations within the territory of the province. (references)

Minorities

Nigeria

Most of the indigenes of the feuding communities are displaced in neighboring villages; hospitals in Onitsha continued to treat victims of the communal violence. (references)

Political Economy

TAIWAN

The new law will treat "computer programs" as literary works conferring economic rights for a term consisting of the life of the author and fifty years after the author's death. (references)

Kazakhstan

In April the Parliament approved amendments to the media law that expand the liability of media outlets, treat Web sites as media outlets and limit direct rebroadcast of foreign media. (references)

Travel

Nigeria

Nigerian authorities can treat fraud "victims" as accomplices in crime. (references)

Women

Saudi Arabia

Islamic law enjoins a man to treat each wife equally. (references)

Nauru

The judiciary and the Government treat major incidents and unresolved family disputes seriously. (references)

Tanzania

It is accepted for a husband to treat his wife as he wishes, and wife beating occurs at all levels of society. (references)

Worker Rights

Italy

In conjunction with other concerned NGO's ECPAT has worked to ensure that police treat juvenile prostitutes as victims of trafficking, not criminals. (references)

Taiwan

Under the Labor Union Law, employers may not refuse employment to, dismiss, or otherwise unfairly treat workers because they are labor union members. (references)

Hungary

Allegedly police and immigration officials often treat trafficking victims as criminals and refuse to accept reports of kidnaping against young women. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "treat": dusty treat ♦ dutch treat ♦ give oneself a treat ♦ ill treat ♦ Refusal to Treat ♦ Robert Treat Paine ♦ school treat ♦ stand treat ♦ treat a case on its merit ♦ treat a subject ♦ treat a subject thoroughly ♦ treat again ♦ treat as ♦ treat as equal ♦ treat as equivalent ♦ treat badly ♦ treat differently ♦ treat disrespectfully ♦ treat fairly ♦ treat for ♦ treat gently ♦ treat harshly ♦ treat harsly ♦ treat humanely ♦ treat ironically ♦ treat like a child ♦ treat of ♦ treat of a subject ♦ treat oneself to ♦ treat outrageously ♦ treat smb. ♦ treat smb. as an equal ♦ treat smb. as one's equal ♦ treat smb. like dirt ♦ treat smb. to smth. ♦ treat smb. with contempt ♦ treat smth. as a joke ♦ treat well ♦ treat with ♦ treat with disrespect ♦ treat with favor ♦ treat with favour ♦ treat with kid gloves ♦ treat with kindness ♦ treat with respect ♦ treat with saltpetre ♦ trick or treat. Additional references.

Ending with "treat": intention-to-treat, pump-and-treat.

Afrikaans

onthaal, behandel (care for, cure, deal, deal with, discuss, handle). (various references)

Albanian

trajtoj (attend, handle, reckon in, touch), shtjelloj (develop, discuss, evolve, explain, explicate, labor, labour), qerasje, qeras (regale), përpunoj (cast, design, develop, elaborate, evolve, mill, process, recondition, refine, rehash, work out), mjekoj (cure, doctor, leech, medicate), kënaqësi (amenity, content, delectation, delight, enjoyment, feast, fun, gladness, gratification, jocundity, kick, pleasure, relish, satisfaction), gostitje (amusement, distraction, enjoyment, entertainment), gostit (banquet, entertain, feast, regale), ekskursion (excursion, hike, jaunt, outing, ramble, tour, trip), bëj diskutime. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاوض (negotiate), ‏كرم بالشراب, ‏مفاجئة (shock, suddeness), ‏متعة (delight, enjoyment, entertainment, gratification, lustiness, pleasure, relish), ‏هدية صغيرة, ‏هدية (boon, gift, present), ‏تعامل مع (patronize), ‏عالج (address, cover, cure, deal, debug, doctor, dose, fix, handle, heal, manage, medicine, pack, process, rectify, remedy), ‏جرى محادثات, ‏إعتبر (account, adjudge, assume, consider, count, deem, externalize, figure, hold the view, look at, make, number, ponder, rate, reckon, see, set), ‏أعطى دواء (administer), ‏دفع نفقات وليمة, ‏بحث في (deal, search). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отнасям се към (remount), държа се с, излет (excursion, jaunt, touring), подлагам на действието на, почерпка, занимавам се с (address oneself to, engage in, go in for, handle, occupy, prosecute, run on, see about, see to), наслада (complacence, delight, enjoyment, pleasance, pleasure, relish, unction), държа се към, обогатявам (concentrate, enrich, fortify), угощение (regale, spread), голямо удоволствие (zest), третирам (handle, serve, use), черпня (shout), черпя (set up, shout, stand, stand sam), разглеждам (analyse, analyze, bolt, canvass, consider, do, eye, handle, hear, look through, oversee, regard, scan, see, see into, see over, take up, view), разработвам (amplify, develop, elaborate, exploit, mature, open, operate, recover, run in, shake down, work out), угощавам (banquet, entertain, regale), неочаквана радост (manna). (various references)

Chinese 

款待, 待 (about, deal with, delay, intending to do something, need, stay, wait), 對待 (treatment). (various references)

Czech

zacházet (use), zábava (amusement, delectation, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fun, kick, occupation, pastime, ploy, pursuit, recreation, sport), vyjednávat (bargain, negotiate, parley), upravit (adapt, adjust, alter, arrange, do up, dress, fix, modify, organize, readjust, redress, regulate, sleek, tidy, touch up, trim), radost (delight, gladness, joy, merriment, pleasure), pohoštìní, požitek (delight, enjoyment, indulgence, pleasure, relish, thrill), léèit (cure, heal, medicate, medicine, nurse, physic), jednat (act, deal, discuss, parley, proceed, use), hostit (entertain). (various references)

Danish

forplejning (catering), beværtning, behandle (care for, cure, deal, deal with, discuss, handle). (various references)

Dutch

cureren (care for, cure), behandelen (care for, cure, deal, deal with, discuss, handle). (various references)

Esperanto

trakti (deal with, handle), regalo, regali (entertain), pritrakti, kuraci (care for, cure). (various references)

Faeroese

tingast (deal, deal with, handle), viðgera (deal, deal with, handle), viðferð, veitsla (celebration, festival, party), røkja (care for, cure, look after, nurse), handfara (deal, deal with, handle), grøða (care for, cure), fara við (deal, deal with, handle), borðreiðing, boð (command, errand, message, order). (various references)

Farsi 

مهمان کردن (Banquet, Guest, Invite), موردعمل قراردادن , مربوطبودن به (Concern), چیزلذت بخش , سروکارداشتن با (Deal, Handle, Truck), عمل اوردن , خوراک رایگان , رفتارکردن (Act, Behave, Demean, Handle), درمان کردن (Remedy), درمان شدن , بحث کردن (Argue, Bandy, Discuss, Dissert, Tussle). (various references)

Finnish

tarjota (bid, offer), pidellä (handle, hold), parantaa (ameliorate, amend, care for, cure, heal, improve, remedy), neuvotella (confer, consult, deal, deal with, discuss, handle, negotiate), kosketella (touch, touch upon), kohdella, kestitys (entertainment), kestitä (entertain), käsitellä (deal with, handle, manipulate, process, treat of), hoitaa (attend, look after, manage, nurse, run, see to, take care of, tend, tend to). (various references)

French

traiter (transact), soigner, régaler, régal. (various references)

German

behandeln (attend to, care for, cure, deal, deal with, discussed, doctor, dress, handle, medicate, process, serve, to attend, to handle, to treat, use). (various references)

Greek 

κερνώ, μεταχειρίζομαι (behave, deal, employ, exert, handle, use), θεραπεύω (cure, cure of, doctor, heal, remedy, salve, treat for). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תיחס (deal, hold true, refer, regard, relate), לטפל (attend, care, groom, see, see about), ל� �"ו�' (be current, be in force, behave toward, conduct, direct, drive, lead, steer). (various references)

Hungarian

vendégség (entertainment, feast), élvezet (amusement, bang, blast, delight, enjoyment, groove, gust, gusto, indulgence, joy, pleasure). (various references)

Indonesian

mengobati (attend, cure), memperlakukan (handle). (various references)

Italian

trattare (bargain, be, be a question, cure, deal, deal in, deal with, discuss, handle, machinate, negotiate, process, talk over, transact), guarire (care for, convalesce, cure, get out, heal, recover, recruit). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

饗応 (banquet, entertainment, feast), 馳走 (banquet, entertainment, feast, goodies), 供応 (banquet, feast). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうおう (banquet, entertainment, feast, one's heart of hearts, Pope, the depths of one's mind), ちそう (banquet, divination based on the lay of the land, entertainment, feast, geographic features, goodies, layer, stratum). (various references)

Korean 

치료 (Cure, Curing, Doctoring, healing, Remedies, remedy, Remedying, therapeutic, therapeutical, therapy). (various references)

Manx

oltaghey (bless, bless as food, entertain, entertaining, entertainment, grace, grace before food, hospitality, receive, reception, refresh, regale, salutation, salute, welcome). (various references)

Papiamen

trata (deal, deal with, handle), kura (care for, cure). (various references)

Pig Latin

eattray.(various references)

Polish

leczyć (care for, cure). (various references)

Portuguese

tratar (attend, cherish, deal, deal with, do, handle, look after, manage, misuse, nurse, process, size), regalo (luxury), obsequiar (do, do a favor, do a favour, entertain, favor, favour, gratify), deleite (amenity, delectation, delight, dribblet, fun, gust, pleasure, relish, zest), curar (bring through, cure, get old, get on in years, heal, medicate, remedy, restore, smoke). (various references)

Romanian

trata (argue, attend, back a bill, banquet, cover, deal, discourse, discuss, doctor, entertain, handle, negotiate, nurse, physic, regale, serve, style, use, work), prilej de plãcere, praznic (feast, festival, wake), ospãta (banquet, board, feast, feed, grub, regale, welcome), ospãţ (banquet, feast, feasting, regale, repast), omeni (dine, eat, feed, honor, honour, revere, welcome, wine), obloji (foment), desfãtare (delectation, delight, enjoyment, feast, feasting, rejoicing), condiţiona (condition), cinstire, cinsti (booze, drink, esteem, grace, hallow, honor, honour, keep, respect), cinste (appreciation, ceremony, chastity, consideration, credit, crown, esteem, fairness, faith, faithfulness, fame, Favor, favour, fealty, gift, glory, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, morality, probity, repute, respect, straight, truth, uprightness, virtue), bucurie (cheerfulness, comfort, delight, ecstasy, enjoyment, exhilaration, exultation, felicity, gayety, gladness, glee, gusto, happiness, joy, merriment, merriness, mirth, pleasure, rapture, raptures). (various references)

Russian 

угощение (dutch lunch, dutch supper, dutch treat, regale, spread), угощать (banquet, regale, wine and dine), удовольствие (bang, content, delight, enjoyment, gusto, joy, kick, pleasure, real jam, relish), развлечение (amusement, dalliance, distraction, diversion, divertissement, do, entertainment, fun, glorification, merriment, pleasure, recreation, relaxation, sport), трактовать, обращаться (allocute, apostrophize, appeal, apply, approach, circulate, handle, plead, recur, refer), обрабатывать (cultivate, machined, work on), обходиться (cost, deal, handle, make shift), лечить (cure, doctor), договариваться (arrange, negotiate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zadovoljstvo (complacence, content, contentment, delectation, delight, pleasure, relish, satisfaction, zest), ugostiti (serve), uživanje (delight, enjoyment, fruition, kick, pleasure, use, zest), razmotriti (consider, deliberate, discuss, fall to thinking, inspect, muse on, muse upon, review, take up, view), postupati (act, behave, use), počastiti (regale), lečiti (cure, heal, medicate), izložiti (display, exhibit, expose, expound, subject, subject to, submit), čast (honor, honour, kudos), čašćenje. (various references)

Spanish

tratar (attend, behave towards, carry, deal, deal with, doctor, handle, let up, like, process, to treat, try on, walk over), curar (care for, cure, doctor, dress, heal, hustle, remedy, season, weather). (various references)

Swedish

behandla (attend, deal, deal in, deal with, doctor, handle, hear, process, serve, talk over, try, use, vet, work), undfägna (entertain, regale), traktera (deal, deal with, entertain, feast, handle, regale), förpläga (feast), bemöta (answer, receive). (various references)

Thai

สิ่งที่ทำให้มีความสุข (gone down a treat), ต่างคนต่างจ่าย (Dutch treat). (various references)

Turkish

tedavi etmek (cleanse, cure, doctor, nurse, physic, remedy, take), ziyafet (banquet, beanfeast, beano, dinner, dinner party, entertainment, feast, junket, spread), zevk veren şey, zevk (bang, delectation, delight, enjoyment, fancy, good taste, gratification, gusto, indulgence, kick, like, liking, luxury, meat, pleasure, relish, savor, savour, sweet, taste), muamele etmek (use), ikram etmek (help smb. to smth., offer, spring), ikram, işlemek (brake, brand, commit, cultivate, discourse, engrave, farm, ferry, forge, function, go, grave, hammer, handle, indwell, instil, instill, operate, penetrate, perform, perpetrate, print, process, run, sink, sink into, stamp, strike, tame, till, travel, work), davranmak (act, bear oneself, behave, comport oneself, conduct oneself, cut up, demean oneself, deport oneself, do by, do to, proceed, use), ısmarlamak (bespeak, commission, give an order, have it made, order, place, place an order, send away for, stand, stand treat, treat smb. to smth.), ısmarlama (bespoke, commission, custom, custom-made, made to measure, made to order, ordered, placement, tailored, tailormade). (various references)

Turkmen 

sagdynlaюdyrmak (cure, take care of), hцdьrlemek (entertain, offer), hцdьr etmek, bejermek (repair). (various references)

Ukrainian

розглядати (consider, examine, review, rummage, sit, sit on, sit over, spy, survey), частування, задоволення (amusement, bang, content, contentment, delectation, delight, enjoyment, gratification, gusto, kick, picnic, pleasure, relish, repletion, satisfaction), лікувати (amend, doctor, medicine), поводитися (act, bear oneself, behave, comport, conduct oneself, handle, walk). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thết đãi tiệc, sự đãi, buổi chiêu đãi điều vui thích, điều thú vị (pleasure, zest). (various references)

Welsh

trin (battle, dress, handle, till, transact), traethu (declare, utter), ymdrin (deal with), amheuthun (choice, dainty, delicacy, rare, rarity, savory). (various references)

Yucatec

ts'aakik (care for, cure). (various references)

Zulu

-pholisa (care for, cure, heal, remedy). (various references)

pertractans, tracta, tractabant, tractabunt, tractanda, tractandum, tractant, tractantem, tractare, tractaret, tractatu, tractaverat, tractaverunt, tractavi, tractemus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "treat": treatabilities, treatability, treatable, treated, treater, treaters, treaties, treating, treatise, treatises, treatment, treatments, treats, treaty. (additional references)

Words ending with "treat": entreat, estreat, intreat, maltreat, mistreat, overtreat, pretreat, retreat. (additional references)

Words containing "treat": entreated, entreaties, entreating, entreatingly, entreatment, entreatments, entreats, entreaty, estreated, estreating, estreats, intreated, intreating, intreats, maltreated, maltreater, maltreaters, maltreating, maltreatment, maltreatments, maltreats, mistreated, mistreating, mistreatment, mistreatments, mistreats, nontreatment, nontreatments, overtreated, overtreating, overtreatment, overtreatments, overtreats, posttreatment, pretreated, pretreating, pretreatment, pretreatments, pretreats, retreatant, retreatants, retreated, retreater, retreaters, retreating, retreats, untreated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Treat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: etreat, freat, itreat, streat, tarat, tarea, taret, teart, terat, terot, terott, terst, theat, tieat, Tirupati, torea, torita, traa, trae, traet, trat, trate, tratt, trea, treak, treal, tream, treap, trear, treart, treash, treate, treef, treet, treft, Trega, treif, treitz, Tresaith, trest, tret, Treta, tretan, trete, Treut, triat, troath, troit, trovato, Truath, Truax, truit, Tueart, tureet, tweat, ureat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tater, tetra.

-1 letter: rate, tare, tart, tate, tear, teat, tret.

-2 letters: are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, eta, rat, ret, tae, tar, tat, tea, tet.

-3 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta.

+1 letter: attire, batter, fatter, hatter, latter, matter, natter, patter, ratite, ratted, ratten, ratter, rattle, rotate, stater, target, tarted, tarter, taster, taters, tatter, tauter, tetrad, tetras, threat, treats, treaty, watter, yatter.

+2 letters: abetter, abettor, abutter, arietta, ariette, artiest, artiste, attired, attires, attrite, batters, battery, battier, battler, beretta, biretta, blatter, brattle, cattery, cattier, chatter, citrate, clatter, curtate, detract, dratted, entrant, entreat, estreat, extract, fattier, flatter, garotte, hatters, intreat, iratest, iterant, iterate, martlet, matters, mattery, natters, nattier, nitrate, outrate, partite, partlet, pattern, patters, platter, prattle, quartet, ratchet, ratites, ratteen, rattens, ratters, rattier, rattled, rattler, rattles, regatta, reptant, restart, restate, retaste, retract, retreat, rotated, rotates, scatter, shatter, smatter, spatter, starets, starlet, started, starter, startle, staters, stature, stretta, striate, swatter, tabaret, taboret, tapster, targets, tartest, tartlet, tartufe, tasters, tastier, tatters, tattier, tattler, taunter, teacart, ternate, tertial, tertian, tetrads, theater, theatre, thereat, threats, titrate, toaster, traject, treated, treater, tuatera, tutelar, yatters.