I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a birthday treat (= something special you do on your birthday )
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What would you like to do for a birthday treat?
treat a disease
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The disease can be treated with antibiotics.
treat a disorder
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The drug is used to treat lung disorders.
treat a patient (= try to cure their illness or injury )
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Patients are treated in terms of priority.
treat an infection
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Antibiotics are used to treat the infection.
treat an injury
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The injury was treated at the local hospital.
treat sb as an individual
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Each student must be treated as an individual.
treat sb/sth with contempt
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The opinions of the public should not be ignored or treated with contempt.
treat sb/sth with respect
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Everyone has a right to be treated with respect.
treat sb/sth with the contempt they deserve
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She treated these accusations with the contempt they deserved.
treat sth with caution
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The results of the survey should be treated with caution.
treated...like muck (= very badly )
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I’m not surprised she left. He treated her like muck .
treated...like royalty
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At school the other children treated them like royalty .
treated/recognized/accepted etc as such
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Birth is a natural process, and should be treated as such.
treat/handle sb with kid gloves
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I want you to treat Hayley with kid gloves today. She’s still upset about her father.
treat...like a doormat
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Don’t let him treat you like a doormat .
trick or treat
went down a treat (= members liked it very much )
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The speech went down a treat with members .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
badly
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Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed.
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Will their children be treated badly in school?
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He said he was not treated badly and that he was with other political prisoners.
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We continually talk to ourselves about them, losing force all the time, and feel that we are very badly treated .
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It was also beginning to vex Hal, who was treated badly by those wider than him.
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Lovely, simple, and demure. Badly treated by her family and underappreciated.
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He was treated badly by most of the people around him.
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But all women here are treated badly .
differently
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Each of the four types of illness was treated differently by the villagers.
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What they failed to realize was that the Volunteers were not being treated differently from anyone else.
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Should the case of the homosexual union be treated differently ?
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Tax rates rise and fall, but the individual and the business are always treated differently .
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When unhappy circumstances befell him, he was treated differently from other employees in the same circumstances.
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They came to see that differ-ent subordinates should be treated differently .
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Here, the emphasis is on the need to isolate and treat differently each conflict of interest situation according to its particular facts.
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Why is it being treated differently than diet pills?
unfairly
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He claimed in court that he had been treated unfairly .
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How else can a child hope that justice will be done to him, who so often feels unfairly treated ?
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But Sue Hampton says she's perfectly capable of carrying on, and has been treated unfairly .
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But campaigners say fathers who are already paying are being treated unfairly .
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But despite an independent survey showing the council was being unfairly treated , the Government has refused to budge.
■ NOUN
case
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She decided to rest, having treated enough cases of sunstroke to know very well how easily it was caught.
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It was treated as a criminal case .
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The diagonal group is treated as individual cases .
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The Labour party and trade unions say farmworkers need to be protected and need to be treated as a special case .
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This is sometimes described in the catch phrase that we must treat like cases alike.
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Psychiatrists tend to treat their cases more as organisms in need of medical treatment.
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H.C. Westermann, who died in 1981, is being treated as a special case .
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The majority of the House of Lords treated the case as being concerned with duty of care.
caution
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The official government figures need to be treated with some caution .
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They still treated each other with caution but each was beginning to respect the other's professionalism.
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An appeal is likely, however, so the decision should be treated with caution .
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The information has to be treated with some caution .
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Cases over five years should be treated with caution as applying a multiplier is not particularly useful.
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Patterned fabrics may appeal to you, but they should be treated with the utmost caution .
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A healthy diet will of course be helpful to you, but extreme or very limited diets should be treated with caution .
child
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That stereotype speaks less for women's liberation than a society which treats children as a disruptive influence, a social nuisance.
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He complained incessantly of being treated like a child by the firm.
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Ambulance crews who treated the child said she was extremely fortunate not to suffer serious eye injuries in the incident.
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Instead of relying to some extent on the Volunteers' own judgment, he treated them like children .
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Yet apparently many parents still treat their children like that.
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On the other hand we seldom treat children like adults.
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Bitterness that their fathers still treat them as children .
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As if he was treating her like a child ... But of course that was nonsense.
contempt
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Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home.
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She was preparing to marry me and had applied for papers, but she treated me with contempt .
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Non-cooperation is treated as contempt of court.
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Opposition forces claim past practice as the basis for treating women with contempt .
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As imperial portraits attracted faith, so images of emperors who had betrayed their subjects' trust were treated with contempt .
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But, happily, not everybody treats kids with contempt .
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Maybe Lucenzo had good reason to treat her with contempt .
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Telemachus they treated with amused contempt as if he were a mere boy and quite beneath their notice.
disease
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Eight states are seeking reimbursement for treating diseases related to smoking.
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It appears to be useful in treating the auto-immune disease of lupus in humans.
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An ophthalmic optician or optometrist tests for and prescribes glasses and can diagnose eye conditions, but doesn't treat eye diseases .
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The spas treat everything from skin diseases to hypertension, cancer and intestinal problems.
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Thousands of tonnes of nutrients and uncontrolled quantities of toxic chemicals used to treat fish disease are pumped into lochs each year.
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Controversy exists on spread, diagnosis and how to treat the disease .
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So different are the careers of pre-menopausal and post-menopausal cancer that they should be treated as different diseases .
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The remaining units make dialysis equipment and provide renal therapy to treat kidney disease and ease transplants.
doctor
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I've already spoken on the phone to the doctors who treated you in Salisbury.
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Please could you have this checked by a Doctor and treat him with the appropriate shampoo before sending him back to school.
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Liz had finally come to my office on the suggestion of her doctor , who was treating her for migraines.
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If a doctor treats a patient with high blood pressure he records blood pressure levels before, during and after treatment.
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The line between legal and illegal is very fine for doctors treating dying patients.
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If the doctor desires to treat the patient, he is often in a strong position to persuade such a relative to concur.
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The methods doctors use to treat obesity do work in the short term, which is what keeps them going.
drug
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In just two years Opren captured well over half the market for drugs to treat arthritis.
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Two new and effective medications have, in fact, recently been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat osteoporosis.
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There was one fascinating lecture on chirality and organic synthesis including the design of Salbutamol, a drug used to treat asthma.
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The finding may help scientists create drugs to treat obese humans.
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The flagship product of the United States pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will now have to contend with another drug that treats impotence.
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But if one type of drug can treat a host of ailments, does that mean the disorders are somehow connected?
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Some work is going into drugs to treat drug addiction.
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Outside the financial-services industry, some companies that make drugs to treat AIDS-related illnesses also have been buffeted recently.
hospital
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Diana Adams was treated in hospital after being bitten on the arm.
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The injured were being treated at two Bombay hospitals , police said.
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Police said 36 people were arrested, mainly for public order offences, and four casualties were treated in hospital .
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Of infections treated in hospitals , about one-third are nosocomial.
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Four hurt: Four men were treated in hospital after a head-on car crash at Musham Bank, Scarborough.
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He was treated at Sonoma Valley Hospital for neck pain and a mild concussion, and released.
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The survivors are being treated in hospital in Yuma, and will be deported when they are able to be moved.
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At least seven people sustained minor injuries and were being treated at local hospitals .
illness
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A qualified nurse is available to treat injuries and general illnesses and to advise on general health matters.
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But his countrymen did not treat his illness as a joke.
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The legislation would require corporate health plans to treat mental illnesses the same as physical ailments.
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Last year 110,000 people died and 254,000 were treated for smoking related illnesses , taking up 9,473 hospital beds every day.
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The lawsuit seeks reimbursement for costs of treating people with tobacco-related illnesses .
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In treating acute illnesses there are only two outcomes to giving the wrong low potency remedy.
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Outside the financial-services industry, some companies that make drugs to treat AIDS-related illnesses also have been buffeted recently.
patient
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Opposition is most fierce in states such as California that have already found ways to curb the cost of treating Medicaid patients .
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The Government claims National Health Service dentists overspent their budget last year by treating more patients than it'd estimated.
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What does this mean and should we be treating these patients ?
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They plan to treat around fifty patients a week, for the next month.
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If the usual winter epidemic of flu causes overcrowding, arrangements have been made to treat patients in privately run hospitals.
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Very small amounts were available, quite insufficient to treat all the patients who might benefit.
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Armonatherapy uses naturally grown aromatic substances to treat patients .
people
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We treat older people as a group and set them at the margins of society.
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Eight states have sued the industry, seeking to recover the Medicaid insurance costs of treating poor people with tobacco-related diseases.
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We can understand plutonium and work out how to treat people who have it in them.
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Public hospitals are concerned that they will not have enough money to treat indigent people not covered by Medicaid.
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The problem was, I got tired of treating people with shoddy equipment and time-expired medicines.
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What gives you the right to treat people like this?
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Securicor guards and Immigration Officers can treat people as they wish.
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How we treat the people we come in contact with.
person
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These 4,505 persons are treated as representative of persons considered responsible for crime during the mature colonial period.
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And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
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They say giving some one a patch is far cheaper than treating the same person for heart disease or lung cancer.
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It is primarily preventative and treats the whole person rather than just the ailment.
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It's also very important not to treat a confused person as a child.
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It is quite illegitimate to treat a person in such a situation as a mere swindler.
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We treat persons with a respect denied to animals and objects.
respect
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She deserves to be treated with respect and sensitivity, and to be formally recognised.
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Domovoi would cheerfully undertake household chores while the family slept, if they were treated with respect and gratitude.
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As employers, we are responsible for making sure employees are treated with respect and dignity.
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Everyone has a right to be treated with respect .
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When you do hear those very special words, make sure you treat them with respect .
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This philosophy regards the individual's right to be treated with respect as inviolate.
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Many women have serious problems and deserve to be treated with respect and offered help that is to the point.
shock
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It took half a mile to come to a halt after the crash and the driver was treated for shock .
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In the name of Freudian nurture theories, gays were once treated with aversion therapy-electric shocks and emetics accompanied by homoerotic images.
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The police officer who saw the shooting is being treated for shock .
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They were treated for shock , but were said to be only slightly injured.
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No shots were fired but Mrs Walker was treated for shock .
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All were treated in hospital for shock .
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The driver of the lorry was treated in hospital for shock .
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She has only recently returned to full duties, and was treated for shock and minor cuts.
way
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I felt the way he treated me was wrong.
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The finding may lead to a way to prevent or treat cocaine addiction.
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They do not have authority over me because the right way to treat their advice depends on my goals.
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The only way to trick-or-treat at their age was to create an atmosphere of mild intimidation.
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There was something about the way she was treating them that still seemed odd to Masklin.
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I think it had to do with the way he treated the bar girl.
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And then this nightmare complication: I can't stand the way he treats her.
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But it is the way you treat each other which matters most.
woman
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Feminists have noted that it always seems to be appropriate for men to treat women as if they were intimates or subordinates.
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Opposition forces claim past practice as the basis for treating women with contempt.
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These pioneer clinics, which numbered only sixteen even by 1930, had treated only 21,000 women by that time.
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Romo treats his women well: Each is finely portrayed, fully explained, lovingly rendered.
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Paradoxically, it is even more damaging, until treated ironically by some women or groups of women.
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Come to think of it, he was almost being treated as a woman .
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The negative answer proposed in this chapter raises some prior questions about policies intended to treat men and women as equals.
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Midlands men also believe that women want tenderness rather than dominance, and a man who treats women as equals.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Dutch treat
take/treat/approach sth lightly
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We don't take any bomb threat lightly .
treat sb like shit
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Everybody always treats me like shit .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After my nervous breakdown, everyone kept treating me with kid gloves.
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Amy's treated him really badly - no wonder he's upset.
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As it's your birthday, I thought I'd treat you.
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Doctors are treating him for cancer.
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Douglas was treated with much more respect after his promotion.
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Glen treated Cathy to dinner at one of the best restaurants in town.
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I'm sick of my parents treating my like a child.
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I don't know what she sees in him - he treats her like dirt.
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In remote areas, make sure your drinking water has been treated.
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Let's all go to a movie - my treat .
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Many common infections can be treated with antibiotics.
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No one would suggest that sex offenders should be treated lightly.
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Police say that her death is being treated as suspicious.
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Some sleep problems can be temporarily treated with sleeping pills.
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The company treats training as a continuous part of career development.
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The school are treating this matter very seriously.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I have been very kindly treated in your lovely City, and everyone has been good to me.
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I occasionally have to treat him.
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It means treating a viewer with respect.
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Makine is a good writer, poetic but never fanciful, and one who treats childhood reflected through experience with delicacy.
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Police said 36 people were arrested, mainly for public order offences, and four casualties were treated in hospital.
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That stereotype speaks less for women's liberation than a society which treats children as a disruptive influence, a social nuisance.
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Whales, forests, and aquifers have been treated in the same way.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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That really was a great treat .
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The greatest treat though is to see Van with John Lee Hooker.
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My dear, it is a great treat for me to have a girl in the house.
occasional
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For occasional treats I was taken on the three-mile trip to Lovettsville and there had my first glimpse of urban splendors.
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Make use of plentiful social reinforcers and the occasional treat by way of acknowledging your child's continuing efforts.
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Some might even be in fairly monogamous relationships, for whom the baths were simply an occasional treat .
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Foods need to be as varied as conveniently possible, and occasional treats such as live artemia will be enthusiastically relished.
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A herbivore, it likes lettuce, peas, and spinach, with the occasional treat of chopped prawn.
rare
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Since then she had learned that pickle or sauce was a very rare treat .
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We hope the trend continues, until such aural excursions become a regular happening rather than a rare treat .
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The butter was a rare treat .
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You've got everything planned: a rare treat .
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It was rare treat , and it helped elevate the film to special status.
real
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Porridge with golden syrup was a real treat in Walworth.
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This was a real treat for me.
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The first outsiders were in for a real treat .
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A visit to a good playground is a real treat , offering our children fun and adventure.
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The one score and three who turned up to see the morning game against Dorning had a real treat .
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That would make Sunday tea a real cockney treat .
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Every morning he prepares a range of at least 20 sweets, which go down a real treat .
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The occasional trip to a swimming pool is a real treat for most families.
special
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Emily, as a special treat , was staying over at a school-friend's.
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Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano got a special treat .
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Include prawns for a special treat or add chicken or ham for a really substantial meal.
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Those of us standing at the top of Mount Rose ski area, however, were in for a special treat .
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But first that special treat - a car journey.
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Cost, unfortunately, is quite high, but they are a special treat .
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Mr Jackson drives me in his car sometimes for a special treat .
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Or reading aloud can be a special treat on Friday nights, or holidays, or rainy Saturdays.
tasty
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And there's no better way to keep warm than to tuck into a tasty treat or two.
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Here's the lowdown on these tasty treats: Wraps are the ideal meal for people on the go.
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Vegemite is a tasty treat foreign tourists will want to bring home.
■ NOUN
birthday
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It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week.
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For a child of five this was a terrifying experience, although it was meant to be a birthday treat .
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It had been a special eighteenth birthday treat for Ashi.
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Friends bought her the ticket as a birthday treat .
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Some birthday treat it is too.
■ VERB
give
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It was like giving myself a little treat , like say buying a bottle of wine.
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She can praise him and give him a little treat .
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I was so happy I decided to give her a treat .
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I thought how nice he was and decided to give him a treat and sit on his lap.
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If the animal sits, give it the treat and repeat this pattern about 20 times.
work
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Much funnier than Tarzan or Hercules, this works a treat because the hero, Emperor Kuzco, is an anti-hero.
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I bet it works a treat .
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I repeated a few times, and it worked a treat - on a window as well.
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It's another first-rate conversion that works a treat on the Game Gear.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Dutch treat
go down well/badly/a treat etc
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It went down a treat with the matrons in safe seats like South-west Surrey.
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It seems to be going down a treat.
go trick or treating
take/treat/approach sth lightly
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We don't take any bomb threat lightly .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Let me take you to dinner. My treat .
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Listening to trombonist Slide Hampton is a treat .
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Many women think of facials as a treat .
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The cafe serves a surprising assortment of healthy gourmet treats.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A visit to a good playground is a real treat , offering our children fun and adventure.
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Afterwards, Uncle Ted, who had his suit and Brylcreem on, announced a treat .
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Grunte's treat that evening at the Hospitality Inn was well timed.
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He carefully cuts away the spines and skin protecting the seedy red fruit within, affording a sloppy stolen treat .
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If the meticulous and demanding rescue work succeeds, birdwatchers using the hide will be in for a treat .
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Keep within your 100 calories limit, but, if you choose carefully, you could have two treats!
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Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano got a special treat .
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We hope the trend continues, until such aural excursions become a regular happening rather than a rare treat .