Synonyms for treat
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1. treat

   There are many acts that one may do, accomplish, or perform unaided; what he transacts is by means of or in association with others; one may do a duty, perform a vow, accomplish a task, but he transacts business, since that always involves the agency of others. To negotiate and to treat are likewise collective acts, but both these words lay stress upon deliberation with adjustment of mutual claims and interests; transact, while it may depend upon previous deliberation, states execution only. Notes, bills of exchange, loans, and treaties are said to be negotiated, the word so used covering not merely the preliminary consideration, but the final settlement. Negotiate has more reference to execution than treat; nations may treat of peace without result, but when a treaty is negotiated, peace is secured; the citizens of the two nations are then free to transact business with one another. Compare DO.

   Synonyms:
   accomplish, act, carry on, conduct, do, negotiate, perform, transact

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. treat

   Synonyms:
   handle, manage, use, bargain, discuss, entertain, discourse, write, speak, negotiate

   Antonyms:
   drop, waive, abandon, decline, suppress, mismanage, misuse, mistreat, maltreat, misconduct, misconsider, misarrange, trifle

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treatnoun

   something considered choice to eat

   Synonyms:
   discreetness, slightness, finesse, delicacy, diplomacy, discretion, kickshaw, goody, dainty, fineness, fragility, airiness, daintiness

2. treatverb

   an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight

   Synonyms:
   dainty, kickshaw, delicacy, goody

3. treat, handle, do byverb

   interact in a certain way

   "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently"

   Synonyms:
   process, cover, deal, do by, care, regale, palm, handle, address, care for, manage, plow, wield

4. process, treatverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   serve, process, litigate, march, cover, do by, care for, handle, plow, work, action, work on, address, regale, sue, swear out, deal

5. treat, care forverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   process, cover, cherish, deal, treasure, do by, regale, handle, address, care for, plow, hold dear

6. cover, treat, handle, plow, deal, addressverb

   act on 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"

   Synonyms:
   speak, overcompensate, extend, handle, cut through, deal, continue, comprehend, embrace, divvy up, spread over, grapple, cut across, apportion, encompass, consider, get over, process, lot, portion out, dole out, make do, plow, shroud, accost, insure, brood, wield, make out, share, do by, plough, hide, take, administer, sell, parcel out, compensate, cross, come up to, turn, report, traverse, underwrite, breed, dispense, overlay, dish out, pass over, contend, enshroud, direct, allot, care for, track, get by, address, wrap up, distribute, cover up, carry on, cope, turn to, incubate, mete out, regale, get across, look at, shell out, care, hatch, manage, deal out, palm, cover, conduct, call, trade

7. treatverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   process, cover, deal, do by, regale, handle, address, care for, plow

8. regale, treatverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   process, cover, deal, do by, regale, handle, address, care for, plow

9. treatverb

   engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement

   "they had to treat with the King"

   Synonyms:
   process, cover, deal, do by, regale, handle, address, care for, plow

10. treatverb

    regard or consider in a specific way

    "I treated his advances as a joke"

    Synonyms:
    process, cover, deal, do by, regale, handle, address, care for, plow

Matched Categories

1. • Give
   • Interact
   • Negociate
   • React

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. treatverb

   Synonyms:
   use, behave to, behave towards

2. treatverb

   Synonyms:
   entertain, feast

3. treatverb

   Synonyms:
   handle, manage

4. treatverb

   Synonyms:
   discourse on, treat of

5. treatverb

   Synonyms:
   negotiate, bargain

6. treatverb

   Synonyms:
   discourse

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1. treatverb

   Synonyms:
   regale, feast, negotiate, behave toward, deal with

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "treat":

   address, treating, treatment, handle, deal, cure, processing, addressing, tackle, heal, process, treated, handling

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. TREAT

   Synonyms:
   Trial to Reduce Cardiovascular Events with Aranesp Therapy

2. TREAT

   Synonyms:
   Tranilast REstenosis following Angioplasty Trial

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1. Johann von Goethe:

   When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

2. Anne Sheehan:

   Our message to any retailer would be that employees are your front line. You need to treat your human capital as you would treat your financial capital.

3. Host Alien Life -RSB- Dick:

   There is also the question of what I call astro-ethics, how do you treat alien life? How do you treat it differently, ranging from microbes to intelligence? So we had a philosopher at our symposium talking about the moral status of non-human organisms, talking in relation to animals on Earth and what their status is in relation to us.

4. Franklin D. Roosevelt:

   If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

5. Julie Cochrane:

   What a crazy world we live in Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.