(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ someone or something in a particular way, you behave towards them or deal with them in that way.
Artie ~ed most women with indifference...
Police say they’re ~ing it as a case of attempted murder...
She adored Paddy but he didn’t ~ her well...
VERB: V n with n, V n as/like n, V n adv
2.
When a doctor or nurse ~s a patient or an illness, he or she tries to make the patient well again.
Doctors ~ed her with aspirin...
The boy was ~ed for a minor head wound...
An experienced nurse ~s all minor injuries.
VERB: V n with n, V n for n, V n
3.
If something is ~ed with a particular substance, the substance is put onto or into it in order to clean it, to protect it, or to give it special properties.
About 70% of the cocoa acreage is ~ed with insecticide...
It was many years before the city began to ~ its sewage.
VERB: be V-ed with n, V n
4.
If you ~ someone to something special which they will enjoy, you buy it or arrange it for them.
She was always ~ing him to ice cream...
Tomorrow I’ll ~ myself to a day’s gardening...
If you want to ~ yourself, the Malta Hilton offers high international standards.
VERB: V n to n, V pron-refl to n, V pron-refl, also V n
5.
If you give someone a ~, you buy or arrange something special for them which they will enjoy.
Lettie had never yet failed to return from town without some special ~ for him.
N-COUNT
6.
If you say that something is your ~, you mean that you are paying for it as a ~ for someone else. (SPOKEN)
N-SING: poss N
7.
If you say, for example, that something looks or works a ~, you mean that it looks very good or works very well. (BRIT INFORMAL)
The first part of the plan works a ~...
PHRASE: PHR after v
8.
to ~ someone like dirt: see dirt