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TREATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
Example:
tempered glass
Synonyms:
hardened; tempered; toughened; treated
Classified under:
Similar:
curable (capable of being hardened by some additive or other agent)
sunbaked (baked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent
Example:
treated fabrics resist wrinkling
Classified under:
Similar:
activated ((of sewage) treated with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition)
aerated ((of a liquid) treated by having air passed or bubbled through it for purification)
burned; burnt (treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point)
doped (treated or impregnated with a foreign substance)
fumed ((of wood) darkened or colored by exposure to ammonia fumes)
proofed (treated so as to become resistant)
Also:
processed (prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process)
Antonym:
untreated (not subjected to chemical or physical treatment)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Given medical care or treatment
Example:
a treated cold is usually gone in 14 days; if left untreated it lasts two weeks
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
bandaged; bound (covered or wrapped with a bandage)
dosed (treated with some kind of application)
dressed (treated with medications and protective covering)
Antonym:
untreated (not given medical care or treatment)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb treat
Context examples:
Who was he that he should not be similarly treated in a few more months?
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Many of the major health risks that men face - like colon cancer or heart disease - can be prevented and treated with early diagnosis.
(Men's Health, NIH)
They may be signs of other problems that should be treated.
(Menstruation, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
Since the infection spreads from person to person, family members may also need to be treated.
(Meningococcal Infections, NIH)
She was not equal, however, to much conversation, and when Miss Bingley left them together, could attempt little besides expressions of gratitude for the extraordinary kindness she was treated with.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
And yet it was in precisely this way that he was treated.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It is used in patients who have already been treated with the anticancer drug called trastuzumab and a type of drug called a taxane.
(Ado-trastuzumab emtansine, NCI Dictionary)
She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a man.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Depending on the characteristics of the radionuclide used, CEA-expressing tumor cells may then be radioimaged and/or treated radioimmunotherapeutically.
(Anti-CEA/Anti-HSG Bispecific Monoclonal Antibody TF2, NCI Thesaurus)
Jane will be treated with such regard and kindness!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
