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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

... international peace, but this is because we sincerely believe that it is our duty to help all such movements provided they are sane and rational, and not because there is any tendency toward militarism on our part which needs to be cured. The evils we have to fight are those in connection with industrialism, not militarism. Industry is always necessary, just as war is sometimes necessary. Each has its price, and industry in the United States now exacts, and has always exacted, a far heavier toll of death than all our wars put together. ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

... of this medicine is worth five dollahs. Who would not give a paltry five dollahs for to be cured of his miseries? But—ladees and gents, because I was once born in your beautiful ceety ...

— Half-Past Seven Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson

... that shrines, like Lourdes, have cured patients in whom he could not 'inspire the operation of the faith cure.' He certainly cannot explain everything which claims to be of supernatural origin in the faith cure. We have to learn the lesson of patience. I am among the first to recognise ...

— The Making of Religion • Andrew Lang

... attend on the grey mare; and when Mr. Killian Gottesheim had presented him to his daughter Ottilia, Otto followed to the stable as became, not perhaps the Prince, but the good horseman. When he returned, a smoking omelette and some slices of home-cured ham were waiting him; these were followed by a ragout and a cheese; and it was not until his guest had entirely satisfied his hunger, and the whole party drew about the fire over the wine-jug, that Killian Gottesheim's elaborate courtesy permitted ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... There are two things peculiar to the city, however, which I must not omit mentioning. One is the Aleppo Button, a singular ulcer, which attacks every person born in the city, and every stranger who spends more than a month there. It can neither be prevented nor cured, and always lasts for a year. The inhabitants almost invariably have it on the face—either on the cheek, forehead, or tip of the nose—where it often leaves an indelible and disfiguring scar. Strangers, on ...

— The Lands of the Saracen - Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain • Bayard Taylor

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