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Curing   /kjˈʊrɪŋ/   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."


Curing  v.  P. a. & vb. n. of Cure.
Curing house, a building in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.





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"Curing" Quotes from Famous Books



... to play the lounging sentinel about the street door, and tell the crocodile-bitten that a great, and aged, and learned alchymist abode there, who in his moments of recreation would sometimes amuse himself by curing ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... Jack that as soon as they reached their destination he would arrange for the proper curing of the skin which he could ...
— The Boy Scouts on the Yukon • Ralph Victor
... mild system of treatment for the insane, both on medical and philanthropic grounds. He argued, in the teeth of a whole legion of irate professional brethren, that kindness would be more powerful than cruelty in curing human beings deranged in intellect, and that, even if incurable, the poor creatures whom God had afflicted did not deserve being laid in fetters and treated like savage animals. The doctor necessarily made a great many enemies by preaching this new doctrine; but ...
— The Life of John Clare • Frederick Martin
... only frighten him," said Edward, who had often seen this same mode of curing diseases exercised, and had no very ...
— The American Family Robinson - or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West • D. W. Belisle
... shape of the arrow-head, the spear, the stone axe and hammer, the grinding board for grains, the bow-and-arrow, is evidence of the skill in handiwork of these primitive peoples. Also, the skill in curing and tanning hides for clothing, and the methods of hunting and trapping game are evidences of great skill. Perhaps, also, there is something in the primitive music of these people which not only is worthy of study but ...
— History of Human Society • Frank W. Blackmar


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