treat someone with respect

  • 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 — 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 …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 3treat — I UK [triːt] / US [trɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms treat : present tense I/you/we/they treat he/she/it treats present participle treating past tense treated past participle treated *** 1) to behave towards someone in a particular way She felt… …

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  • 4respect — re|spect1 [ rı spekt ] noun uncount *** 1. ) a feeling of admiration that you have for someone because of their personal qualities, their achievements, or their status, and that you show by treating them in a polite and kind way: respect for:… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 5respect — I UK [rɪˈspekt] / US noun Word forms respect : singular respect plural respects *** 1) [uncountable] a feeling of admiration that you have for someone because of their personal qualities, their achievements, or their status, and that you show by… …

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  • 6treat — /trit / (say treet) verb (t) 1. to act or behave towards in some specified way: to treat someone with respect. 2. to look upon, consider, or regard in a specified aspect, and deal with accordingly: to treat a matter as unimportant. 3. to deal… …

  • 7treat — treater, n. /treet/, v.t. 1. to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect. 2. to consider or regard in a specified way, and deal with accordingly: to treat a matter as unimportant. 3. to deal with (a… …

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  • 8treat — [[t]trit[/t]] v. t. 1) to act or behave toward in some specified way: to treat someone with respect[/ex] 2) to consider or regard in a specified way: to treat a matter as unimportant[/ex] 3) to deal with in a specified way; handle 4) med to deal… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 9treat — 1 /tri:t/ verb (T) 1 BEHAVE TOWARDS SB (always + adv/prep) to behave towards someone in a particular way: treat sb like/as: She treats me like one of the family. | Even though they were much younger, we treated them as equals. | badly… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 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… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English