CURING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curing mean? 

• CURING (noun)
  The noun CURING has 1 sense:

1. the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization

  Familiarity information: CURING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

curing; hardening; set; solidification; solidifying

Context example:

he tested the set of the glue

Hypernyms ("curing" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "curing"):

congealment; congelation (the process of congealing; solidification by (or as if by) freezing)

Holonyms ("curing" is a part of...):

plastination (a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened)

Derivation:

cure (prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve)

 Context examples 

A surgical method for curing a cyst.

(Epithelial Marsupialization, NCI Thesaurus)

Since screening may find diseases at an early stage, there may be a better chance of curing the disease.

(Disease Screening, NCI Dictionary)

Diepoxybutane is primarily used for research purposes, but is also used as a curing agent for polymer resins and as a cross-linking agent for making synthetic textile fibers.

(Diepoxybutane, NCI Thesaurus)

I told him “we fed on a thousand things which operated contrary to each other; that we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst; that we sat whole nights drinking strong liquors, without eating a bit, which disposed us to sloth, inflamed our bodies, and precipitated or prevented digestion; that prostitute female Yahoos acquired a certain malady, which bred rottenness in the bones of those who fell into their embraces; that this, and many other diseases, were propagated from father to son; so that great numbers came into the world with complicated maladies upon them; that it would be endless to give him a catalogue of all diseases incident to human bodies, for they would not be fewer than five or six hundred, spread over every limb and joint—in short, every part, external and intestine, having diseases appropriated to itself. To remedy which, there was a sort of people bred up among us in the profession, or pretence, of curing the sick. And because I had some skill in the faculty, I would, in gratitude to his honour, let him know the whole mystery and method by which they proceed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I was complaining of a small fit of the colic, upon which my conductor led me into a room where a great physician resided, who was famous for curing that disease, by contrary operations from the same instrument.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)