Overview of verb cure

The verb cure has 4 senses

• bring around, cure, heal -- (provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to")


• cure -- (prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay")


• cure -- (make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap")


• cure -- (be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun")

Overview of adj cured

The adj cured has 6 senses

• cured, healed, recovered -- (freed from illness or injury; "the patient appears cured"; "the incision is healed"; "appears to be entirely recovered"; "when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium"- Normon Cameron)


• cured, vulcanized, vulcanised -- ((used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity))


• cured -- ((used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening)


• cured -- ((used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry)


• corned, cured -- ((used especially of meat) cured in brine)


• aged, cured -- ((used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable))