treat
To act towards someone in a certain way.
To act or deal with someone in a particular manner.
To give medical help to someone who is sick or hurt.
To provide medical care or therapy to a person or animal for an illness or injury.
A special thing that makes you happy, often as a gift.
Something special that gives pleasure, often given as a gift or reward.
To pay for something for another person, like food or tickets, as a nice act.
To pay for food, entertainment, or another expense for someone else as a gift or act of kindness.
To put something on or do something to an object to make it better or keep it safe.
To use a special substance or method on something to preserve, clean, or improve it.
- Base: treat
- Plural: treats
- Base: treat
- 3rd Person Singular: treats
- Present Participle: treating
- Past: treated
special treat
1Rare enjoyable gift or event
A very nice thing you get only sometimes, often as a surprise or reward.
- As a special treat, we’re going out for dinner tonight.
- Chocolate cake is my special treat after exams.
treat yourself
1Give yourself something nice
To buy or do something special for yourself for pleasure.
- You’ve worked hard—go ahead and treat yourself!
- I decided to treat myself to a spa day.
trick or treat
1Halloween request for candy
A phrase children say on Halloween when asking for candy while dressed in costumes.
- On Halloween night, children go door-to-door saying 'trick or treat'.
- We bought lots of candy for trick-or-treat night.
trick or treat
2Halloween request for candy
Words that children say on Halloween when they go from house to house asking for candy.
- The children ran from door to door shouting, "Trick or treat!"
- We bought bags of candy for all the kids who come to say "trick or treat."
- On Halloween night, groups of children in costumes go trick or treating.