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untreated

/ ʌnˈtriːtɪd /

adjective

In North Carolina, they let a 54-year-old untreated schizophrenic die of thirst after 35 days in solitary confinement.

This, of course, was untreated until he reached death row, after which he became a “model inmate.”

Nearly two-thirds of the sewage in the megacity of Dhaka, with 15 million people, is untreated.

Located in Fribourg, Switzerland, Perritaz uses untreated, foraged fruit grown on high trees around his home in the Alpine region.

“Untreated,” in this case, refers to firewood that has not been heat-treated.

All the dried fruits are rich in food values, and if we could get them untreated by chemicals, they would be worth their cost.

This condition, if untreated, may persist for years and may finally give rise to a general tuberculosis.

This has led to alarmists demanding that under no circumstances ought sewage to pass untreated into a river.

In small children it is not uncommon, if such cases remain untreated, for this membrane to choke the patient.

It is true that sapwood will not resist decay as long as heartwood, if both are untreated with preservatives.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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