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🤝 To behave toward 🩺 To give care 🍬 A special pleasure 🎉 To pay for 💧 To process 🗣️ To discuss 🤝 To negotiate
to treat

to treat

112 1.7
To pay for something for someone to enjoy
  • verb
  • /trit/
: invitar (a alguien) a
  • For his birthday, I will treat him to a weekend getaway at the beach.

Hit the restaurant, splurge a little bit, treat yourself, you deserve it.

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Examples

  • I decided to treat my friends to dinner for their support during a tough time.

  • She wanted to treat her parents to a special anniversary celebration.

  • And I wanted to treat people immediately.

  • I mean, love yourself enough to treat yourself.

  • So I am going to treat myself to a bath.

  • Good job, you did it. Treat yourself to a snack.

  • How about treating your dad to breakfast today?

    Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

  • Hyung-nim, I will treat you to a massage today.

    Beast (2018)

  • We hitched a ride with a Methodist preacher who treated us to a hot lunch.

    Fiction book (1990)

Antonyms

to deny
661 1.6

To refuse to let someone have something

to withhold
204 5.1

Refuse to give something someone wants or needs

Idioms

as a treat
7 2.7

To give someone something special as a reward

to treat like royalty
  • Informal
6 3.9

Give someone very special care and attention like a king or queen

no way to treat a lady
  • Informal
1 8.6

To act toward a woman without respect

Phrasal Verbs

to treat oneself
1 4.2

Do something special for yourself as a reward or to relax

Compounds

trick or treat
  • Baby Talk
107 2.5

An activity where children go from house to house asking for sweets on Halloween

real treat
18 2.1

Something you enjoy very much

afternoon treat
1 1.6

A small snack in the afternoon like tea and cookies

Dutch treat
1 5.9

An occasion when each person pays for their own meal or drink

gummy treat
1 2.2

A soft, chewy candy that tastes like fruit

fishsicle treat
  • Baby Talk
7.7

A frozen snack shaped like a fish that children often eat

frogsicle treat
  • Baby Talk
9.4

A frozen sweet shaped like a frog that children eat

How Generous

to spoil
55 3.7
to pamper
45 3.7
to treat
112 1.7
to pay
∞ 1.0
to offer
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

treat infinitive
treated past
treated past participle
treating present participle
treats third person singular

Etymology

Treat comes from an old word meaning 'to handle' or 'give care', and it shares the root tract seen in tractor. So to treat someone to dinner is to give them special care or a gift paid by you.