treated - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | treat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act, behave towards |
| Synonyms: | account, appraise, conduct, consider, employ, estimate, evaluate, handle, hold, manage, negotiate, play, rate, regard, respect, serve, take, use, value, wield, act with regard to, conduct oneself toward, deal with*, have business with, have recourse to, have to do with, look upon, react toward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | treat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | doctor, medicate |
| Synonyms: | administer, attend, cure, dose, dress, heal, nurse, operate, prescribe, apply treatment, care for, medicament, minister to |
| Antonyms: | harm, hurt, injure |
| Main Entry: | treat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pay the bill for someone else |
| Synonyms: | amuse, blow, divert, entertain, escort, feast, foot the bill*, give, indulge, provide, regale, satisfy, set up, stake, stand*, wine and dine*, buy for, pay for, pick up the check, pick up the tab, play host, spring for, take out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | treat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be concerned with; discuss |
| Synonyms: | advise, approach, arrange, comment, confer, consider, consult, contain, criticize, deliberate, explain, go into, interpret, manipulate, reason, review, study, tackle, think, weigh, confabulate, deal with, discourse on, enlarge upon, speak about, talk about, touch upon, write about |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | considered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deliberate, thought-out |
| Synonyms: | advised, examined, express, intentional, investigated, premeditated, studied, studious, voluntary, willful, aforethought, contemplated, designed, designful, given due consideration, gone into, mediated, prepense, thought-about, thought-through, treated, weighed, well advised, well chosen |
| Antonyms: | forgotten, neglected, unplanned, unstudied, disregarded |
| Main Entry: | worked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | processed |
| Synonyms: | fashioned, wrought, created, treated |
| Main Entry: | entertained |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | given hospitality |
| Synonyms: | honored, received, sheltered, welcomed, banqueted, cherished, feasted, feted, harbored, regaled, treated, wined and dined |
| Antonyms: | neglected, ignored, spurned |
| Main Entry: | confer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discuss, deliberate |
| Synonyms: | advise, argue, bargain, blitz*, brainstorm*, breeze*, collogue, confab, confabulate, consult, converse, deal, debate, discourse, flap*, gab*, get heads together, give meeting, groupthink, huddle, jaw, kick ideas around, negotiate, parley, pick one's brain, powwow*, speak, talk, toss ideas around, treat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consult |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask, confer |
| Synonyms: | argue, ask advice of, be closeted with, brainstorm*, call in, cogitate, collogue, commune, compare notes, confab, confabulate, consider, debate, deliberate, discuss, examine, flap*, groupthink, huddle, interrogate, interview, kick ideas around, negotiate, parlay, pick one's brains, powwow*, put heads together, question, refer to, regard, respect, review, seek advice, seek opinion of, take a meeting, take account of, take counsel, talk over, toss ideas around, treat, turn to |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | heal, ease bad situation |
| Synonyms: | alleviate, ameliorate, attend, better, cold turkey*, correct, doctor, dose, dress, help, improve, kick, mend, nurse, palliate, rectify, redress, rehabilitate, relieve, remedy, repair, restore, right, shake, treat, dry out, kick the habit, make better, make healthy, make whole, medicate, minister to, quit cold, restore to health, sweat it out |
| Antonyms: | depress, hurt, injure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do business |
| Synonyms: | bargain, barter, bicker, dicker*, handle, negotiate, sell, stock, swap, trade, traffic, treat, buy and sell, hammer out deal, horse trade, knock down price, work out deal |
| Antonyms: | deny, refuse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deal/deal with |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | handle, manage |
| Synonyms: | act, approach, behave, clear, concern, consider, control, direct, discuss, hack it*, handle, oversee, play, review, rid, serve, take, treat, unburden, use, attend to, behave toward, conduct oneself, cope with, get a handle on something, have to do with, live with, make a go of it, make it, see to, take care of |
| Antonyms: | mismanage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discourse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discuss, speak about |
| Synonyms: | argue, chew*, comment, confer, converse, debate, declaim, descant, develop, dispute, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, explain, expound, harangue, lecture, modulate, orate, perorate, remark, talk, treat, voice, commentate, confab, dilate upon, dissert, dissertate, give a meeting, hold forth, sermonize |
| Antonyms: | be quiet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cover a wound |
| Synonyms: | attend, bandage, bind, cauterize, cleanse, heal, plaster, sterilize, treat, give first aid, sew up |
| Antonyms: | open, uncover, undress |
| Main Entry: | drug |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put under influence of medication |
| Synonyms: | benumb, blunt, deaden, desensitize, dope*, dose, fix, hit, knock out*, numb, poison, relax, sedate, stupefy, treat, analgize, anesthetize, dope up, dose up, medicate, narcotize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entertain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accommodate visitors |
| Synonyms: | admit, board, chaperone, dine, feed, foster, harbor, house, invite, lodge, nourish, put up*, quarter, receive, regale, room, treat, welcome, wine and dine*, be host, do the honors, give a party, have a do, have a get-together, have company, have guests, have visitors, pick up the check, pop for, recreate, show hospitality, spring for, throw a party |
| Antonyms: | refuse, reject, turn away |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | equate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | balance; think of together |
| Synonyms: | agree, assimilate, associate, average, compare, consider, equalize, even, hold, level, liken, match, offset, pair, paragon, parallel, regard, relate, represent, square, tally, treat, be commensurate, correspond to, correspond with, make equal, similize |
| Antonyms: | disagree, imbalance, unliken |
| Main Entry: | feast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eat a great amount or very well |
| Synonyms: | banquet, dine, eat sumptuously, entertain, gorge, gormandize, indulge, overindulge, regale, stuff, stuff one's face, treat, wine and dine* |
| Antonyms: | abstain, fast |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fertilize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make ready to bear, produce |
| Synonyms: | beget, breed, compost, cover, dress, enrich, feed, fructify, generate, germinate, impregnate, inseminate, manure, mulch, pollinate, procreate, propagate, treat, fecundate, lime, make fruitful, make pregnant, top-dress |
| Main Entry: | fete |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw a party for someone |
| Synonyms: | celebrate, entertain, feast, festival, holiday, honor, lionize, treat, wine and dine*, hold reception for, make much of, roll out the red carpet |
| Notes: | fate is an event or a course of events that will inevitably happen in the future or the supposed force or power that predetermines events while a fete is an elaborate, usually outdoor, party or festival |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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