treated

Meanings

Verb

• interact in a certain way
• subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
• provide treatment for
  • "The doctor treated my broken leg"
  • "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"
• act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
• provide with a gift or entertainment
  • "Grandmother always treated us to the circus"
• provide with choice or abundant food or drink
  • "She treated her houseguests with good food every night"
• engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement
• regard or consider in a specific way
  • "I treated his advances as a joke"
• simple past and past participle of treat

Adjective

• subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent
  • "the sludge of treated sewage can be used as fertilizer"
  • "treated timbers resist rot"
  • "treated fabrics resist wrinkling"
• given medical care or treatment
  • "a treated cold is usually gone in 14 days; if left untreated it lasts two weeks"
• made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

Adj

• Subject to treatment or an action.

Synonyms

address, care for, cover, deal, do by, handle, hardened, plow, process, regale, tempered, toughened, treat

Antonyms

untempered, untreated