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Curing   /kjˈʊrɪŋ/   Listen
Curing

noun
1.
The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization.  Synonyms: hardening, set, solidification, solidifying.  "He tested the set of the glue"


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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"Curing" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the optimist system of the positivists is that it lies like a misty veil over the real surface of facts, and conceals the very change that it professes to make impossible. It is a kind of moral chloroform, which, instead of curing an illness, only makes us fatally unconscious of its ...
— Is Life Worth Living? • William Hurrell Mallock
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... which the water is conveyed, as it issues directly from the springs. In other respects the analyses differ but slightly, nor does the efficacy of the water appear to have become less potent in alleviating or curing those diseases for which it ...
— Buxton and its Medicinal Waters • Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet
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... book on the Philosophy of Osteopathy, I wish to say that I will not tire you with a book of compilations just to sell to the anxious reader. As I have spent thirty years of my life reading and following rules and remedies used for curing, and learned in sorrow it was useless to listen to their claims, for instead of getting good, I obtained much harm therefrom, I asked for, and obtained a mental divorce from them, and I want it to be understood that drugs and I are as far apart as the East is from ...
— Philosophy of Osteopathy • Andrew T. Still
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... nothing to give you so poor an opinion of me. It is only your own diseased imagination, and I do not seem to be curing it very fast. I suppose, because your mind is naturally so strong, it is the more difficult to destroy such an hallucination as ...
— Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World • James Cowan
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... extreme difficulty of curing a drunkard, of the immense proportion of failures. But, I thought, if a woman such as I cannot by the lavishing of her whole soul and body deliver from no matter what fiend a man such as Diaz, then the world has changed, and the eternal ...
— Sacred And Profane Love • E. Arnold Bennett
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