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
"The context of this is how black and brown people are treated when they enter public life," he told reporters gathered outside the court.
From BBC ● 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
National press called the strike an “industrial Woodstock” and treated it as a generational rebellion as much as a labor dispute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The Most Important Person at Longfellow School was not treated with respect in his own house.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
