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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



... cure other things, only it wouldn't cure people all the time. There was just one time in the year when it would do it; and then the one that got in first was the only one cured." ...
— Four Girls at Chautauqua • Pansy
... year, we were no better off than the English who complained so much, Who has dared to say, however, that from the time they entered the hospital to the time that they left it, dead, evacuated, or cured, through fifteen or twenty days of cholera or typhus, our men lay on the same plank, in the same shoes, drawers, shirts and clothing that they brought in with them? They were in a state of living putrefaction ...
— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq
... body and soul, if one of the lecturers, after taking us to task for some heartless, disgusting piece of levity, seeing perhaps that it was more than half bravado on my part and nearly made me sick, managed to get me alone. He talked it out with me, found out the innocent-hearted fool I was, cured me of my false shame at what the good old souls at home had taught me, showed me what manhood was, found a good friend and a better lodging for me, in short, was the saving of me. He died three months after I first knew him, but whatever is worth having ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the little girl was sent East to this aunt. In October she was hurt by an automobile, and was told she could never walk again. In April Dr. Chilton sent her to the Sanatorium, and she was there till last March—almost a year. She went home practically cured. You should have seen the child! There was just one cloud to mar her happiness: that she couldn't WALK all the way there. As near as I can gather, the whole town turned out to meet her with ...
— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter
... authority than the understanding, and on the whole had had to get on with very little philosophy. Like M. Jourdain, they were amazed to find that they had been all the time appealing to the reason; now they might actually go out to meet the enemy. Orthodoxy might be cured by a hair of the ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various


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