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treatment

[ treet-muhnt ]

noun

  1. an act or manner of treating.

    Synonyms: , , ,

  2. action or behavior toward a person, animal, etc.
  3. management in the application of medicines, surgery, etc.
  4. literary or artistic handling, especially with reference to style.
  5. subjection to some agent or action.
  6. Movies, Television. a preliminary outline of a film or teleplay laying out the key scenes, characters, and locales.


treatment

/ ˈٰːٳəԳ /

noun

  1. the application of medicines, surgery, psychotherapy, etc, to a patient or to a disease or symptom
  2. the manner of handling or dealing with a person or thing, as in a literary or artistic work
  3. the act, practice, or manner of treating
  4. films an expansion of a script into sequence form, indicating camera angles, dialogue, etc
  5. the treatment slang.
    the usual manner of dealing with a particular type of person (esp in the phrase give someone the ( full ) treatment )
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ԴDz·ٰ𲹳mԳ noun
  • v·ٰ𲹳mԳ noun
  • Dz·ٰ𲹳mԳ adjective
  • -ٰ𲹳mԳ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of treatment1

First recorded in 1550–60; treat + -ment
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Idioms and Phrases

see red carpet (treatment) .
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Example Sentences

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According to the psychiatrist, Aswat was "highly ambivalent about the need for medication and had relapsed twice as a result of stopping treatment", which had coincided with violent outbursts.

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He had a brief stay in hospital after suffering side effects from his cancer treatment, but was well enough to return to a series of engagements last week.

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The floods have also left people across much of Kinshasa struggling with water shortages, after water treatment pumps in the city were themselves inundated.

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A surgeon who treated Mr Perks said he had "a 95% chance of dying" when he arrived at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for treatment.

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She said she hoped any donations would improve research on AML, a particularly aggressive cancer which, she said, had not seen any "solid advancements" in treatment for 50 years.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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