Treatment vs Overtreat - What's the difference?
treatment | overtreat |
The process or manner of treating someone or something.
(senseid)Medical care for an illness or injury.
The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
(countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
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(countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
(obsolete) entertainment; treat
* (rfdate) Alexander Pope
(medicine) To subject to excessive medical treatment, often to such an extent as to cause adverse effects
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As a noun treatment
is the process or manner of treating someone or something.As a verb overtreat is
to subject to excessive medical treatment, often to such an extent as to cause adverse effects.treatment
English
Noun
- He still has nightmares resulting from the treatment he received from his captors.
- A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
- Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.
- The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment .
- Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
- Accept such treatment as a swain affords.
Derived terms
* silent treatmentovertreat
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Verb
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