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Cured   /kjʊrd/   Listen
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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



... 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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