treat
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(verb) provide treatment for; "The doctor treated my broken leg" |
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Synonyms: care for |
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Related Words: administer, analyse, analyze, bleed, burn, cauterize, cup, dispense, doctor, dress, leech, manipulate, massage, medicate, medicine, nurse, operate, operate on, phlebotomize, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze, relieve, remedy, shock, splint, transfuse, treat manually, vet |
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(verb) provide with a treat |
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Related Words: gift, give, present |
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(verb) interact in a certain way; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please" |
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Synonyms: do by, handle |
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Related Words: abuse, baby, bemock, brutalise, brutalize, cocker, coddle, cosset, cut, disregard, do justice, do-well by, featherbed, gloss over, ignore, ill-treat, ill-use, indulge, interact, maltreat, mistreat, mock, mollycoddle, nurse, pamper, ride roughshod, rough-house, run roughshod, skate over, skimp over, slur over, smooth over, snub, spoil, strong-arm, upstage, use, wrong |
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(verb) subject to a process or treatment, often with the aim of readying for some purpose; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "process water" |
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Synonyms: process |
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Related Words: affect, agenize, ammoniate, bear on, bear upon, bituminize, bromate, brominate, camphorate, carbonate, carboxylate, chlorinate, chrome, creosote, digest, dose, fluoridate, fluoridize, fume, fumigate, impact, iodise, iodize, irradiate, malt, mercerize, nitrate, oxygenate, oxygenize, ray, refine, run, sulphur, tank, touch, touch on, vulcanize, winnow |
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(verb) deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization" |
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Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, plow, work |
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Related Words: broach, discourse, discuss, initiate, spiel, talk about |
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(verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink |
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Synonyms: regale |
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Related Words: cater, feast, feed, ply, provide, supply |
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(noun) something considered choice to eat |
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Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw |
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Related Words: aliment, alimentation, ambrosia, bone marrow, choice morsel, confection, confectionery, gelatin, jelly, marrow, nectar, nourishment, nutriment, savory, savoury, sustenance, sweet, tidbit, titbit, victuals |
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