Treated
[tri:tid]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) given medical care or treatment; 'a treated cold is usually gone in 14 days; if left untreated it lasts two weeks' .
Editor: Rena--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Treat
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Examples
- I would never have treated Miss Crawley's faithful friends as that odious designing Mrs. Bute has done. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Leitner hated Loerke with an injured, writhing, impotent hatred, and Loerke treated Leitner with a fine-quivering contempt and sarcasm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The lady was wealthy and beautiful, and had a liking for the girl, and treated her with great kindness, and kept her always near her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Do I mind being cruelly treated by Somebody Else? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In dancing attendance at the various offices, I was always treated, more or less, as if it was a very bad offence. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Please start it, Mr. Brooke, said Kate, with a commanding air, which surprised Meg, who treated the tutor with as much respect as any other gentleman. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I have been treated and respected as a gentleman universally. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It is dangerous to say I am like Tartar; it suggests to me a claim to be treated like Tartar. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The comments are my own, and show how I saw the matters treated of whether others saw them in the same light or not. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I know my duty to Thomasin quite as well as I know my duty to you as a woman unfairly treated. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I treated them as the ravings of a maniac. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was a tree of the fig genus, and from the first it was treated with peculiar veneration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the matter of slavery; all nations had slaves; some treated them very cruelly, some with moderate cruelty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Lambton declared that, whatever his appearance might be, he had no idea of being treated like a child by any man, seeing that he was of age. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Edison's assertions were treated with scepticism by the scientific world, which was not then ready for the discovery and not sufficiently furnished with corroborative data. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He had been treated hardly and suffered, and he became hard; nevertheless he stands out in history as a man of rare, unblemished honesty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I may remark that the bread in these sausages was not treated, and therefore it has become slightly sour, but the pork has kept perfectly fresh. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Was the legacy of the Moonstone a proof that she had treated her brother with cruel injustice? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- When Totila retook Naples from the Greeks, the Goths protected the women from insult and treated even the captured soldiers with humanity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- She had overlooked the fact that, in coming as a boy among other boys, she would be treated as a boy. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She had declined to answer the questions which Miss Halcombe naturally put, but had not, in other respects, treated her with unkindness or neglect. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I've less reason to wish the Dook well than most men, said he, for I was head coachman once, and cruel bad he treated me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Why were you treated so? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He might be ever so depressed or sulky, and she did not mark his demeanour, or only treated it with a sneer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Lyell and other authors have ably treated this subject. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This, however, is not a theme to be treated of in passing only, but will have to be discussed again and again. Plato. The Republic.
- When his own relatives came she was treated better. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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