Treatment

Quick meaning: Treatment is a noun meaning The process or manner of treating someone or something.

Meaning

The process or manner of treating someone or something.

More Meanings

1. Medical care for an illness or injury.
2. The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
3. (countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
4. (countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
5. (euphemistic) harsh punishment; retribution
6. (obsolete) entertainment; treat

Example Sentences

Accept such treatment as a swain affords.

He’s been a naughty boy, so give him a good treatment.

A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.

The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.

Word Forms

• treatments

Synonyms for treatment

Depending on context, synonyms include course, discourse, discussion, handling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include handling, discourse, discussion, treating, treated, therapeutic.

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