treat someone like dirt

  • 1treat someone like dirt — treat (someone) like dirt to behave badly towards someone in a way that shows that you do not respect them. I don t know why she stays with him. He treats her like dirt …

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  • 2treat someone like dirt — phrase to behave towards someone in a way that shows you have no respect for them Thesaurus: to show that you do not respect someone or somethingsynonym Main entry: dirt …

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  • 3treat someone like dirt — to behave towards someone in a way that shows you have no respect for them …

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  • 4treat like dirt — treat (someone) like dirt to behave badly towards someone in a way that shows that you do not respect them. I don t know why she stays with him. He treats her like dirt …

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  • 5dirt — [ dɜrt ] noun uncount * 1. ) soil or MUD (=soil mixed with water): Groups of children were playing in the dirt. mounds of dirt 2. ) a substance that makes something dirty: His face was covered in dirt. Angelo brushed the dirt off his coat. 3. )… …

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  • 6treat — treat1 [ trit ] verb transitive *** ▸ 1 behave toward someone ▸ 2 deal with something ▸ 3 cure illness ▸ 4 protect/preserve something ▸ 5 be nice to someone 1. ) to behave toward someone in a particular way: She felt she had been unfairly treated …

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  • 7treat — [[t]tri͟ːt[/t]] ♦♦ treats, treating, treated 1) VERB If you treat someone or something in a particular way, you behave towards them or deal with them in that way. [V n with n] Artie treated most women with indifference... [V n as/like n] Police… …

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  • 8dirt */ — UK [dɜː(r)t] / US [dɜrt] noun [uncountable] 1) a substance that makes something dirty His face was covered in dirt. Angelo brushed the dirt off his coat. 2) soil or mud (= soil mixed with water) Groups of children were playing in the dirt. mounds …

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  • 9dirt — S3 [də:t US də:rt] n [U] [Date: 1200 1300; : Old Norse; Origin: drit] 1.) any substance that makes things dirty, such as mud or dust ▪ You should have seen the dirt on that car! ▪ His face and hands were black with dirt. ▪ a patch of grass,… …

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  • 10treat — treat1 W1S2 [tri:t] v [T] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(behave towards somebody/something)¦ 2¦(deal with something)¦ 3¦(illness/injury)¦ 4¦(buy something for somebody)¦ 5¦(protect/clean)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: traitier, from Latin… …

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