treat
verb (used with object)
to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way.
treated
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past participleof treat.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof treat.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
treatverb (used with object)to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way.
Example Sentences
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“We’d been reading a lot of complaints about how people are fired in Silicon Valley and just treated like garbage,” Robert said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
At his East London clinic, Stephen Hibbs—who treated the Albanian patient—found many of his colleagues had similar difficult stories of patients being harmed by language barriers.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
Art of Play has defended how it treated the star, saying the wooden bird is permanently attached to the wall and is not for sale.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
"Our hope is that they would be equipped with oxygen, nurses, and everything needed. So, if there are children who fall ill, they can be treated there. That's what we really want."
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
He’d told the doctor who treated him that the financial world as we knew it was about to end.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
