detreat
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detreat (third-person singular simple present detreats, present participle detreating, simple past and past participle detreated)
- (transitive) To reverse the treatment of.
- 1993, Commerce Clearing House, Food, drug, cosmetic law reporter:
- The tolerance applied to corn seed that was treated with the pesticide captan as a seed protectant and later detreated by washing or roasting so that the seed could be used as an animal feed.