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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERTREAT

overtreat  [ˌəʊvəˈtriːt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERTREAT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overtreat is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb overtreat in English.

WHAT DOES OVERTREAT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overtreat in the English dictionary

The definition of overtreat in the dictionary is to give too much medical treatment to.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO OVERTREAT

PRESENT

Present
I overtreat
you overtreat
he/she/it overtreats
we overtreat
you overtreat
they overtreat
Present continuous
I am overtreating
you are overtreating
he/she/it is overtreating
we are overtreating
you are overtreating
they are overtreating
Present perfect
I have overtreated
you have overtreated
he/she/it has overtreated
we have overtreated
you have overtreated
they have overtreated
Present perfect continuous
I have been overtreating
you have been overtreating
he/she/it has been overtreating
we have been overtreating
you have been overtreating
they have been overtreating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I overtreated
you overtreated
he/she/it overtreated
we overtreated
you overtreated
they overtreated
Past continuous
I was overtreating
you were overtreating
he/she/it was overtreating
we were overtreating
you were overtreating
they were overtreating
Past perfect
I had overtreated
you had overtreated
he/she/it had overtreated
we had overtreated
you had overtreated
they had overtreated
Past perfect continuous
I had been overtreating
you had been overtreating
he/she/it had been overtreating
we had been overtreating
you had been overtreating
they had been overtreating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will overtreat
you will overtreat
he/she/it will overtreat
we will overtreat
you will overtreat
they will overtreat
Future continuous
I will be overtreating
you will be overtreating
he/she/it will be overtreating
we will be overtreating
you will be overtreating
they will be overtreating
Future perfect
I will have overtreated
you will have overtreated
he/she/it will have overtreated
we will have overtreated
you will have overtreated
they will have overtreated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been overtreating
you will have been overtreating
he/she/it will have been overtreating
we will have been overtreating
you will have been overtreating
they will have been overtreating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would overtreat
you would overtreat
he/she/it would overtreat
we would overtreat
you would overtreat
they would overtreat
Conditional continuous
I would be overtreating
you would be overtreating
he/she/it would be overtreating
we would be overtreating
you would be overtreating
they would be overtreating
Conditional perfect
I would have overtreat
you would have overtreat
he/she/it would have overtreat
we would have overtreat
you would have overtreat
they would have overtreat
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been overtreating
you would have been overtreating
he/she/it would have been overtreating
we would have been overtreating
you would have been overtreating
they would have been overtreating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you overtreat
we let´s overtreat
you overtreat
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to overtreat
Past participle
overtreated
Present Participle
overtreating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERTREAT


backstreet
ˈbækˌstriːt
Bradstreet
ˈbrædˌstriːt
bystreet
ˈbaɪˌstriːt
concrete
ˈkɒnkriːt
discreet
dɪˈskriːt
discrete
dɪsˈkriːt
Dutch-treat
ˈdʌtʃˌtriːt
entreat
ɪnˈtriːt
estreat
ɪˈstriːt
extreat
eksˈtriːt
greet
ɡriːt
high-street
ˈhaɪˌstriːt
intreat
ɪnˈtriːt
maltreat
mælˈtriːt
misentreat
ˌmɪsɪnˈtriːt
mistreat
ˌmɪsˈtriːt
pretreat
priːˈtriːt
retreat
rɪˈtriːt
street
striːt
treat
triːt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERTREAT

overtoil
overtone
overtones
overtook
overtop
overtopped
overtopping
overtower
overtrade
overtrain
overtreatment
overtrick
overtrim
overtrip
overtrump
overtrust
overture
overturn
overturner
overtype

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERTREAT

Alexander the Great
Alfred the Great
beat a retreat
Charles the Great
death threat
Dutch treat
floreat
Frederick the Great
great
heat-treat
hereat
ill-treat
overeat
overgreat
Peter the Great
security threat
thereat
threat
trick or treat
whereat

Synonyms and antonyms of overtreat in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overtreat» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERTREAT

Find out the translation of overtreat to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of overtreat from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overtreat» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

过度治疗
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sobretratar
570 millions of speakers

English

overtreat
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

overtreat
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

overtreat
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

overtreat
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

overtreat
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

overtreat
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

surtraiter
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Overtreat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

overtreat
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

overtreat
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

overtreat
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overtreat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overtreat
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

overtreat
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Overtreat
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aşırı tedavi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

overtreat
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overtreat
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

overtreat
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

supratratare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπερθεραπεύουμε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overtreat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

overtreat
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overtreat
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overtreat

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERTREAT»

The term «overtreat» is used very little and occupies the 181.462 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of overtreat
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERTREAT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «overtreat» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «overtreat» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overtreat

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERTREAT»

Discover the use of overtreat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overtreat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Issues in Surgical Research, Techniques, and Innovation: ...
National. Cheng. Kung. University,. Tainan: Do. We. Overtreat. Post- Thyroidectomy. Hypocalcemia? By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Biotech Week — Research findings on Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases and Conditions are ...
‎2013
2
Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-based Competition on ...
Ironically, providers' incentives to undertreat due to health plan reimbursement rules and structures coexist with incentives to overtreat, compounding the problems for patient value. Incentives to overtreat have four sources. First and most ...
Michael Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, 2013
3
Beleaguered Rulers: The Public Obligation of the Professional
... basic payment systems for professional services create different temptations for professionals (and the institutions for which they work). The fee-for-service system tempts doctors to overtreat and the prepayment system to undertreat patients.
William F. May, 2001
4
Maximizing Damages in Small Personal Injury Cases
... how to turn the exaggeration or overstatement into a low or zero verdict. The defense attorneys essentially lie in wait hoping you will ask the jury for an award that is so high that they will be offended. §514. Clients. Who. OverTreat. There is a ...
Ellsworth T. Rundlett, Tina Fife, 1991
5
Introduction to Massage Therapy
Massage risks and benefits Risks: FMS patients tend to be hypersensitive and easy to overtreat. Care must be taken to stay within their tolerance for pain and adaptability. Benefits: Fibromyalgia indicates massage, which can help reduce pain, ...
Mary Beth Braun, 2013
6
10 Things You Need to Know Before You See the Doctor: A ...
... a healthier public. When you take the medication properly, for the correct length of time, for the proper treatment, you won't overtreat yourself. If you overtreat a condition, you'll bring on another disease and 97 Four: Surgery Is Always Scary...
Sheldon Lipshutz, 2004
7
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: An Objective-Based Textbook
Itis possibleto overtreat or undertreat. For example, onemay overtreat mandibular condyle fractures if it is not appreciated that many displaced fractures ofthe neck ofthe condyle heal spontaneously without complications.Similarly, neglectof ...
Jonathan Pedlar, John W. Frame, 2007
8
The People's Health:: A Memoir of Public Health and Its ...
They talked about incentives to overtreat in a system based on fees for service and private third-party payers. They emphasized the dollar value of prevention. " Medicine can cure you, but public health will keep you well," said Fernando ...
Robin Marantz Henig, A Joseph Henry Press book, 1996
9
Medicine, Money, and Morals : Physicians' Conflicts of ...
The main limitation of utilization and peer review programs is that they do not come to grips with the core problem — the incentive to overtreat. They leave self- serving incentives intact and try to compensate for them: a strategy that will always ...
School of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University-Bloomington Marc A. Rodwin Associate Professor of Law and Public Policy, 1993
10
Managed Competition and Pharmaceutical Care: A Challenge for ...
We have found that treatment according to the national standard would tend to overtreat about 50% of the population via our analysis. Do you overtreat a given population to get at-risk patients? Or do you try to make better use of your system  ...
Dev S. Pathak, Alan Escovitz, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERTREAT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overtreat is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Volusia firefighter rescues man's life on plane
"You try to treat them and overtreat them, and something goes the other way, then you may not have the equipment or the supplies that you ... «Bay News 9, Jul 15»
2
When health care becomes unnecessary care
In this country, there is not the same temptation to overtreat in the quest for profit as in the U.S., but there is also little accountability and cost ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
3
Urine Drug Test For Chronic Pain Patients – Another Perspective
With chronic pain, we are tempted to undertreat or overtreat based on assumptions and biases. Too often we fail to determine whether the ... «National Pain Report, Jul 15»
4
Pinpointing the Onset of Metastasis
But in making the decision to perform additional procedures, women and their doctors are, in effect, betting that it's better to overtreat than to ... «R & D Magazine, Jun 15»
5
'Wait and Watch' Young Patients With White-Coat Hypertension
... and reevaluate the patient in a while, in order to not overtreat," session cochair Dr Stefano Perlini (University of Pavia, Italy) told heartwire . «Medscape, Jun 15»
6
AAO 2015: Sleep apnea treatment options multiply
Dr. Lowe advised the group not to overtreat patients who wear oral appliances with complex restorative treatment as tooth movement may ... «DrBicuspid.com, May 15»
7
'Over-treating' patients is wasting the NHS money and can cause harm
... doctors in the UK – warns a culture of 'defensive medicine' and lack of knowledge is leading medics to overdiagnose and overtreat patients. «Daily Mail, May 15»
8
Small Smiles agrees to $39M settlement in mistreatment lawsuit
"We must guard against dentists that mislead parents, intentionally overtreat under the guise of 'protecting' children, pull baby teeth that would ... «DrBicuspid.com, May 15»
9
Why Aren't We Living to 120?
Insurers and doctors know much more about what services cost and can use this information advantage to overcharge and overtreat patients, ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
10
The Great Success And Enduring Dilemma Of Cervical Cancer …
In an effort not to overtreat but to capture those who truly have the disease and need treatment, we have been able to space out the screenings. «WRVO Public Media, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
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