Usually means: Provide enjoyment or pleasure through.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. treat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. treat, treat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. treat: Collins English Dictionary
  4. treat: Vocabulary.com
  5. Treat, treat: Wordnik
  6. treat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Treat, treat: Wiktionary
  8. treat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. treat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. treat: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. treat: Dictionary.com
  12. treat (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. treat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Treat (band), Treat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Treat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. treat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. treat: Rhymezone
  18. treat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. treat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. TREAT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. treat: Free Dictionary
  22. treat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. treat: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. treat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. treat-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. treat: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. treat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. TREAT: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TREAT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. treat: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. treat, treat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. treat: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
verb:  (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
verb:  (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
verb:  (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
verb:  (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward.
verb:  (UK politics, law) To commit the offence of providing food, drink, entertainment or provision to corruptly influence a voter.
verb:  (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
verb:  (transitive) To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in mind.
verb:  To provide something special and pleasant.
noun:  An entertainment, outing, food, drink, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
noun:  An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
noun:  A snack food item designed to be given to pets.
noun:  (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
noun:  (obsolete) An entreaty.
noun:  A surname.

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