Verb

Now halting a few paces before the Captains of the West he looked them up and down and laughed. 'Is there any in this rout with authority to treat with me?' he asked.

After all, in this hideous war we have just passed through never forget that Halifax would have treated with Hitler: it took Churchill to refuse.

I wouldn't promote businesses I considered immoral – ambulance-chasing lawyers or online roulette for example – but I've got nothing against computer or software manufacture: they're important and any reputable company in that industry is welcome to treat for my services.

Cicero's writing treats mainly of old age and personal duty.

Now of love they treat .

The article treated feminism as a quintessentially modern movement.

Only let my family live, I treat thee.

You treated me like a fool.

She was tempted to treat the whole affair as a joke.

I treated my son to some popcorn in the interval.

I've done so well this month, I'll treat''' you all to dinner (or 'Dinner is my '''treat .)

My husband treated me to a Paris holiday for our anniversary.

They treated me for malaria.

He treated the substance with sulphuric acid.

I treated the photo somewhat to make the colours more pronounced.

The Chelsea captain was a virtual spectator as he was treated to his side's biggest win for almost two years as Stamford Bridge serenaded him with chants of "there's only one England captain," some 48 hours after he announced his retirement from international football.

Verb

And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching .

as he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

Without these incentives to industry the Norwegian would be like the Laplander, without industry and civilisation ; and the nearer he approaches' to the ''beau idéal'' of those political economists — to the state of being without a taste for these foreign and expensive luxuries — the nearer he ' approaches to the condition of the Laplander in the comforts and enjoyments of life.

In this respect, the only books which approach to its excellence are Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe.

He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer. -- .

"Would counsel please approach the bench?" asked the judge.

to approach the city

He approached the age of manhood.

Don't approach that house.

When one approaches the nest of this species, the male exhibits the greatest anxiety respecting its safety, passes and repasses, fluttering and snapping its bill within a few feet, as if determined to repel the intruder.

Removing with him and the old housekeeper to within a mile of the parsonage-house, where his dear friends resided, he gratified the only remaining wish of Oliver's warm and earnest heart, and thus linked together a little society, whose condition approached as nearly to one of perfect happiness as can ever be known in this changing world.

Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest winter.

If a variable $v$ takes on successively a series of values that approach' nearer and nearer to a constant value $l$ in such a manner that $,\; v\; -\; l,$^{[To be read ''the numerical value of the difference between'' $v$ ''and'' $l$]} becomes and remains less than any assigned arbitrarily small positive quantity, then $v$ is said to '''''approach the limit'' $l$, or to ''converge to the limit $l$. Symbolically this is written

And it was with decision that he approached the problem of his wrecked shop.

"Why bother publishing my conversations. It has not helped you, and it is not going to help anybody else", said U.G. when I approached him with the idea of publishing excerpts from his conversations with the constant stream of people who go to visit him.

(Boyle)