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verb

Cure v. t. (past & past part. cured; pres. part. curing)

1.

To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; said of a patient. "The child was cured from that very hour."

2.

To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; said of a malady. "To cure this deadly grief." "Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power... to cure diseases."

3.

To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. "I never knew any man cured of inattention."

4.

To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.

Cure v. i.

1.

To pay heed; to care; to give attention. (Obs.)

2.

To restore health; to effect a cure. "Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure."

3.

To become healed. "One desperate grief cures with another's languish."

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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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