treatment
/ˈtɹiːtmənt/ noun B1- The process or manner of treating someone or something. · He still has nightmares resulting from the abusive treatment he received from his captors.
- Medical care for an illness or injury. · A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.· Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.
- The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
- A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
- A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
- harsh punishment; retribution · He’s been a naughty boy, so give him a good treatment.· Even if you supported the socialist regime, your class background often meant you were going to get the treatment regardless.
Plural treatments
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Tell her that to condemn and discard one who has not deserved such treatment, without giving him her reasons or a chance to explain is contrary to her nature as I believe it to be.
I would be glad if you would call and undertake the treatment of her case.
Marilla made no reply, but she hit the unlucky sorrel such a vicious clip with the whip that the fat mare, unused to such treatment, whizzed indignantly down the lane at an alarming pace.
“I beg you will not put it into Lizzy’s head to be vexed by his ill-treatment, for he is such a disagreeable man that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
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