Curing

noun, verb

noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something is cured.

    "As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings."

  2. 2
    the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of cure form-of, gerund, participle, present

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anhydrationblast-freezingbottlingbriningcanningcorning

Example

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"He intends to devote his life to curing the sick in India."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From cure + -ing.

Etymology 2

From Middle English curyng, curinge, equivalent to cure + -ing.

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