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CURED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cured mean?
• CURED (adjective)
The adjective CURED has 6 senses:
1. freed from illness or injury
2. (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)
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
6. (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process ('aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
Familiarity information: CURED used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Freed from illness or injury
Synonyms:
Context example:
when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium
Similar:
well (in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)
Synonyms:
cured; vulcanised; vulcanized
Similar:
processed (prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening
Similar:
seasoned (aged or processed)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry
Similar:
preserved (prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use)
Sense 5
Meaning:
(used especially of meat) cured in brine
Synonyms:
corned; cured
Similar:
preserved (prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use)
Sense 6
Meaning:
(used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process ('aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
Synonyms:
aged; cured
Similar:
preserved (prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use)
Context examples
Cancer that has spread to other places in the body and usually cannot be cured or controlled with treatment.
(Advanced cancer, NCI Dictionary)
“Come,” said he, “you are anxious for a compliment, so I will tell you that you have improved her. You have cured her of her school-girl's giggle; she really does you credit.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The ODL compounds cured mice infected with several pathogenic bacteria and demonstrated activity against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive pathogens, notably including carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriacae.
(A New Class of Antibiotics to Combat Drug Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
In most cases, Hodgkin disease can be cured.
(Hodgkin Disease, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
Her position on the heeling boat irked her, and she remembered the headache he had cured and the soothing rest that resided in him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It is cured by surgical removal.
(Apocrine Hidrocystoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Approximately 80% of children appear to be cured.
(B Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
A proprietary light-cured glass ionomer dental liner material.
(Fuji Lining LC, NCI Thesaurus)
This does not always mean the cancer has been cured.
(Complete remission, NCI Dictionary)
A type of smokeless tobacco made from cured tobacco leaves.
(Chewing tobacco, NCI Dictionary)
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