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CURED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process ('aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
Synonyms:
aged; cured
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preserved (prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(used especially of meat) cured in brine
Synonyms:
corned; cured
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preserved (prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry
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preserved (prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening
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seasoned (aged or processed)
Sense 5
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
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Adjectives
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processed (prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Freed from illness or injury
Example:
when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium
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well (in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb cure
Context examples:
Superficial lesions are always cured by simple excision; a wider margin of tissue should be obtained for deep, benign types.
(Benign Fibrous Histiocytoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Acute or severe kidney failure happens suddenly (for example, after an injury) and may be treated and cured.
(Kidney Failure, NCI Dictionary)
I smiled, and said:—I was ill, I have had a shock; but you have cured me already.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I had heard of jerking beef on the plains, and our seal-meat, cut in thin strips and hung in the smoke, cured excellently.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He put five sun-cured salmon into the oven to thaw out for the dogs, and from the water-hole filled his coffee-pot and cooking-pail.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Small tumors may be cured with enucleation.
(Odontogenic Myxofibroma, NCI Thesaurus)
Some leukemias can often be cured.
(Leukemia, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
Risk groups may also be based on the chance of being cured or the chance that the cancer will come back.
(Childhood cancer risk group, NCI Dictionary)
A tube-shaped tobacco product that is made of tightly rolled, cured tobacco leaves in a tobacco leaf wrapper or a wrapper that contains tobacco.
(Cigar, NCI Dictionary)
The Crawfords, without wanting to be cured, were very willing to stay.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
