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treatment
noun
    1. The medical or surgical care that a patient is given to cure an illness or injury.
      Thesaurus: care, therapy, remedy, regimen.
    2. An act or the manner or process of dealing with someone or something.
      Example: rough treatment
      Thesaurus: usage, handling, processing, dealing, approach, execution, procedure, method, manner, way, mode.
    3. A way of presenting something, especially in literature, music, art, etc.
      Example: his sympathetic treatment of his women characters
    4. The act, means or process of dealing with something, especially by using a chemical, biological, etc agent.
      Example: Cold water is the best treatment for blood stains
Idiom: the (full) treatment
    colloq
    The appropriate or usual way of dealing with someone or something, especially in its most complete, thorough or complicated form.
      Example: The police took her in for questioning and gave her the full treatment


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