treatment
The process or manner of treating someone or something.
Example
“He still has nightmares resulting from the abusive treatment he received from his captors.”
Other meanings
Medical care for an illness or injury.
“A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.”
The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
Synonyms
- intervention
Related words
- heat treatment
- absent treatment
- adjunct treatment
- cold treatment
- conservative treatment
- exposure treatment
- flour treatment agent
- give the royal treatment
- hairdryer treatment
- ill-treatment
- intensive treatment
- medication assisted treatment
Example sentences
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “treatment” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.