Cured
/kjʊəd/ verb
verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of cure form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process wordnet
- 2 (used especially of meat) cured in brine wordnet
- 3 (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry wordnet
- 4 (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening wordnet
- 5 (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) wordnet
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- 6 freed from illness or injury wordnet
Example
More examples"Cancer can be cured if discovered in time."