Cured
[kjʊr]
Definition
(adj.) (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry .
(adj.) (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening .
(adj.) (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) .
(adj.) 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 .
Typist: Rodger--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Cure
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Examples
- But I can't be cured of my vagaries; them I plead guilty to. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Men made bridges before there was a science of bridge-building; they cured disease before they knew medicine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Honest diseases they honestly cured; and if a man was wounded, they applied the proper remedies, and then let him eat and drink what he liked. Plato. The Republic.
- How is Rubber Cured on Modern Plantations? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This phrase, in its senseless arrogance, quite cured me of the temporary weakness which had made me relax my tone and aspect. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Perfectly cured he certainly was not, for he supported himself forward on crutches to give evidence. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The sleep of this afternoon has quite cured my fatigues of last night. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- When Pasteur at the age of fifteen was in Paris, overcome with homesickness, he had exclaimed, If I could only get a whiff of the old tannery yard, I feel I should be cured. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The herrings caught and cured at sea are called sea-sticks. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You have cured her of her school-girl's giggle; she really does you credit. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Mr. Glauber went home seriously indisposed at his rebuff, took a cooling draught, and is now quite cured. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The leprous son of a Prince cured in like manner. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His father would not own himself uneasy, and laughed at her fears; but she could not be cured of wishing that he would part with his black mare. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I believe it has cured my hiccup! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Italian peasants believe that this disease can only be cured by a certain kind of music. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These, instead of being cured in brine, are rubbed in salt and piled away. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Flax-threshers for beating the grain from the bolls of the cured flax plant, removing the bolls, releasing and cleaning the seed, are also a modern invention. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The letter gave me new life, I imagined myself cured. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- When the officer reached me I was still suffering with the sick headache, but the instant I saw the contents of the note I was cured. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was cured of that formality suddenly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He washed, and was cured. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I would have cured you both in less than a month, and made Worcester hate you most cordially. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He has cured Ellen Bulstrode. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As an adjunct in curing mild hams and bacon it would be of great use, for these, when cured lightly, would not go bad, as they often do in the summer time. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- After the hide is taken from the animal it is either dry cured, or else salted green, and packed for shipment or storage. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Crawfords, without wanting to be cured, were very willing to stay. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I will come back alone, cured, or with a wife, and more in love than ever. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A leprous girl cured by the water in which the infant Christ was washed, and becomes the servant of Joseph and Mary. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- All could be mildly cured if this material was used with the other curing substances. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I thank you that you renounced my prayers; for you thus cured me of half my esteem. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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