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Cured

adjective
1.
Freed from illness or injury.  Synonyms: healed, recovered.  "The incision is healed" , "Appears to be entirely recovered" , "When the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium"
2.
(used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity).  Synonyms: vulcanised, vulcanized.
3.
(used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening.
4.
(used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry.
5.
(used especially of meat) cured in brine.  Synonym: corned.
6.
(used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process ('aged' is pronounced as one syllable).  Synonym: aged.


Cure

verb
(past & past part. cured; pres. part. curing)
1.
Provide a cure for, make healthy again.  Synonyms: bring around, heal.  "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
2.
Prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve.  "Cure pickles" , "Cure hay"
3.
Make (substances) hard and improve their usability.  "Cure cement" , "Cure soap"
4.
Be or become preserved.



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"Cured" Quotes from Famous Books



... the city should make the citizens as good as possible. But who would undertake a public building, if he had never had a teacher of the art of building, and had never constructed a building before? or who would undertake the duty of state-physician, if he had never cured either himself or any one else? Should we not examine him before we entrusted him with the office? And as Callicles is about to enter public life, should we not examine him? Whom has he made better? For ...
— Gorgias • Plato
... for fear of setting up reflex action; the diagnosis of extrauterine gestation at about six and a half months with a living child was established without requiring to be clinched by proving the uterus empty. The patient was kept absolutely at rest in bed and the edema of the left leg cured by position. On April 30th the fundus of the tumor was 35 cm. above the symphysis and the uterus 11 1/2 cm.; the cervix was soft as that of a primipara at term. Operation, May 2d: Uterus found empty, cavity 14 1/2 ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... the vessels lie within a cable's length of the beach, and the beach itself is smooth, hard sand, without rocks or stones. For these reasons, it is used by all the vessels in the trade as a depot; and, indeed, it would be impossible, when loading with the cured hides for the passage home, to take them on board at any of the open ports, without getting them wet in the surf, which would spoil them. We took possession of one of the hide-houses, which belonged to our firm, and had been used ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana
... avowed depredators. To maintain these retainers, and to support the extravagance and magnificence which their pride induced them to affect, the nobility borrowed sums of money from the Jews at the most usurious interest, which gnawed into their estates like consuming cankers, scarce to be cured unless when circumstances gave them an opportunity of getting free, by exercising upon their creditors some ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... possible; but I do not understand how mine are to be cured. They have come too clearly ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope


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