Associations to the word «Treated»

Wiktionary

TREATED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of treat

Dictionary definition

TREATED, adjective. Subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent; "the sludge of treated sewage can be used as fertilizer"; "treated timbers resist rot"; "treated fabrics resist wrinkling".
TREATED, adjective. Given medical care or treatment; "a treated cold is usually gone in 14 days; if left untreated it lasts two weeks".
TREATED, adjective. Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats