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curing

[kyoor] Origin

cure

[kyoor] noun, verb, cured, cur·ing.
noun
1.
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
2.
a method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease.
3.
successful remedial treatment; restoration to health.
4.
a means of correcting or relieving anything that is troublesome or detrimental: to seek a cure for inflation.
5.
the act or a method of preserving meat, fish, etc., by smoking, salting, or the like.
EXPAND
6.
spiritual or religious charge of the people in a certain district.
7.
the office or district of a curate or parish priest.
COLLAPSE
verb (used with object)
8.
to restore to health.
9.
to relieve or rid of something detrimental, as an illness or a bad habit.
10.
to prepare (meat, fish, etc.) for preservation by salting, drying, etc.
11.
to promote hardening of (fresh concrete or mortar), as by keeping it damp.
12.
to process (rubber, tobacco, etc.) as by fermentation or aging.

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Curing is always a great word to know.
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verb (used without object)
13.
to effect a cure.
14.
to become cured.

Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) Middle English curen < Middle French curer < Latin cūrāre to take care of, derivative of cūra care; (noun) Middle English < Old French cure < Latin cūra

cure·less, adjective
cure·less·ly, adverb
cur·er, noun
half-cured, adjective
o·ver·cured, adjective
EXPAND
sem·i·cured, adjective
un·cured, adjective
well-cured, adjective
COLLAPSE


2. remedy, restorative, specific, antidote. 9. Cure, heal, remedy imply making well, whole, or right. Cure is applied to the eradication of disease or sickness: to cure a headache. Heal suggests the making whole of wounds, sores, etc.: to heal a burn. Remedy applies especially to making wrongs right: to remedy a mistake.

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cure
c.1300, from L. cura "care, concern, trouble," from PIE base *kois- "be concerned." In reference to fish, pork, etc., first recorded 1743. Related: Curable (late 14c.). Cure-all in general sense is from 1870; as a name of various plants, it is attested from 1793.
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cure (ky&oobreve;r)
n.

  1. Restoration of health; recovery from disease.

  2. A method or course of treatment used to restore health.

  3. An agent that restores health; a remedy.

v. cured, cur·ing, cures
  1. To restore a person to health.

  2. To effect a recovery from a disease or disorder.

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