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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

... me early in life with a love of mythology. The simplicity of spirit with which they were accepted carried one back to the early ages of the world. Take for instance the way in which, as I was taught to believe, my father was cured of fever when a child. Before daybreak he was taken to the chapel of the saint who exercised the healing power. A blacksmith arrived at the same time with his forge, nails, and tongs. He lighted his fire, made his tongs red ...

— Recollections of My Youth • Ernest Renan

... chief, was now cured of his wounds and had recovered from the fray, though many dead they left within this land. Then King Gunther went to find Sir Siegfried; to the knight he spake: "Now tell me what to do. Our foes would fain ride early and beg for lasting ...

— The Nibelungenlied • Unknown

... their letters. Seven or eight years ago, there was a clamor at the weight of certain mammoth sheets, as the New World and the Brother Jonathan, weighing each from a quarter to half a pound. But this extravagant folly of publishers has in a great measure cured itself, and the grievance has ceased. The law of 1845 undertook to make a discrimination against papers of exorbitant size, by charging extra postage on all that were larger than 1900 square inches. I cannot learn that ...

— Cheap Postage • Joshua Leavitt

... what is become of them? "These fears can never be endured, "I'll to the wood."—The word scarce said, Did Susan rise up from her bed, As if by magic cured. ...

— Lyrical Ballads 1798 • Wordsworth and Coleridge

... region. Till quite recently this comprised its whole diet, but since the country it inhabits has become occupied by Europeans it has developed a taste for a carnivorous diet, with alarming results. It began by picking the sheepskins hung out to dry or the meat in process of being cured. About 1868 it was first observed to attack living sheep, which had frequently been found with raw and bleeding wounds on their backs. Since then it is stated that the bird actually burrows into the living ...

— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace

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