CURED

aged, cured

(adjective) (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (‘aged’ is pronounced as one syllable)

corned, cured

(adjective) (used especially of meat) cured in brine

cured

(adjective) (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry

cured

(adjective) (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening

cured, vulcanized, vulcanised

(adjective) (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)

cured, healed, recovered

(adjective) freed from illness or injury; “the patient appears cured”; “the incision is healed”; “appears to be entirely recovered”; “when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium”- Normon Cameron

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

cured

simple past tense and past participle of cure

Anagrams

• crude

Source: Wiktionary


CURE

Cure (k, n. Etym: [OF, cure care, F., also, cure, healing, cure of souls, L. cura care, medical attendance, cure; perh. akin to cavere to pay heed, E. cution. Cure is not related to care.]

1. Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.] Of study took he most cure and most heed. Chaucer. Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. Fuller.

2. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure. The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman.

3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.

4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury. Past hope! pastcure! past help. Shak. I do cures to-day and to-morrow. Luke xii. 32.

5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative. Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure. Dryden. The proper cure of such prejudices. Bp. Hurd.

Cure, v. t. [imp.& p.p. Cured (krd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curing.] Etym: [OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr. cura. See Cure,.]

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. Matt. xvii. 18.

2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady. To cure this deadly grief. Shak. Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases. Luke ix. 1.

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

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. Shak.

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

Cu`ré" (k`r"), n. Etym: [F., fr. LL. curatus. See Curate.]

Definition: A curate; a pardon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ROOTS

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