Word Meanings - TREAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure.

Additional info about word: TREAT

To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure. 7. To entreat; to beseech. Ld. Berners. (more info) violently, to handle, manage, treat, v. intens. from trahere, 1. To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly. 2. To discourse on; to handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely. 3. To entertain with food or drink, especially the latter, as a compliment, or as an expression of friendship or regard; as, to treat the whole company. 4. To negotiate; to settle; to make terms for. To treat the peace, a hundred senators Shall be commissioned. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TREAT)

• Banquet
• Feast
• festivity
• treat
• entertainment
• festival
• carousal
• carouse
• regalement
• cheer
• Handle
• Feel
• use
• manage
• manipulate
• touch
• wield
• discuss
• Medicate
• Treat
• compound
• amalgamate
• adulterate
• sophisticate
• drug
• Transact
• Conduct
• perform
• complete
• carry on
• negotiate
• Use Employ
• exercise
• practice
• accustom
• habituate
• inure

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TREAT)

• Resolve
• analyze
• Rest
• ease
• disuse
• respite
• relax
• recreate

Related words: (words related to TREAT)

• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• WIELDSOME
  Admitting of being easily wielded or managed. Golding.
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• EXERCISE
  exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
• BANQUETTE
  A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• COMPLETE
  Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil. Syn. -- See Whole. (more info) 1. Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficienty; entire; perfect; consummate.
• FEAST
  festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
• TRANSACTOR
  One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business. Derham.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• ANALYZER
  The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, analyzes.
• RESOLVENT
  Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• CHEERISNESS
  Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
• CHEERINGLY
  In a manner to cheer or encourage.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• CHANDLER
  of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• INCOMPLETE
  Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower. Incomplete equation , an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0. (more info)