Word Finder - cured

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To restore to health.

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Unaided nature cured him.

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• heal

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To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.

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Unaided nature cured his ailments.

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To cause to be rid of (a defect).

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Experience will cure him of his naïveté.

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To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.

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The smoke and heat cures the meat.

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To bring about a cure of any kind.

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To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.

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The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.

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To preserve (food), typically by salting

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To solidify or gel.

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The parts were curing in the autoclave.

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To become healed.

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To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

Her eyes returned to her cured arm.

It is entirely in praise of Mahomet, who cured the poet of paralysis by appearing to him in a dream and wrapping him in a mantle.

His magic, we are told, pro cured him the honour of a statue from the emperor Claudius.

The Warlord cured his wife and daughter of illness when Sirian refused them entry.

The country cultivator has, as a rule, only a small area - perhaps a corner of his farm or garden - planted with tea, the produce of which is roughly sun-dried and cured in a primitive manner.

The ambiguity cannot be cured.

On his journey he was upset from his carriage, and the accident caused an internal abscess which was never cured.

They were accordingly replaced in great measure by the old autocratic methods of administration, and much of the administrative corruption which had been cured, or at least repressed, by the reform enthusiasm again flourished luxuriantly.

The deep-sea fishery attracts hundreds of boats from the north of Scotland, and most of the catch is cured for the English, German and Dutch markets.

A closer inspection had cured him of his love for republican institutions.

Yet traces of a pre-deistic and animistic period survived here and there; for instance, in Arcadia we find the thunder itself called Zeus (ZEUs Kepavvos) in a Mantinean inscription, 2 and the stone near Gythium in Laconia on which Orestes sat and was cured of his madness, evidently a thunder-stone, was named itself Zeus Kainreoras, which must be interpreted as " Zeus that fell from heaven "; 3 we here observe that the personal God does not yet seem to have emerged from the divine thing or divine phenomenon.

The emperor Tiberius, when afflicted with a grievous sickness, commanded the woman to bring the portrait to him, worshipped Christ before her eyes, and was cured.

In order to prevent decomposition of any proteid impurity which may remain incorporated with the rubber, the freshly coagulated rubber is sometimes cured in the smoke of burning wood or a small quantity of an antiseptic such as creosote is added during coagulation.

Although the coast and river fisheries of Brazil are numerous and valuable, cured fish is one of the staple imports, and foreign products are to be found even along the Amazon.

The conditions of diet and digestion in children are now far better understood, and many of their maladies, formerly regarded as organic or incomprehensible, are cured or prevented by dietetic rules.

At this time an attempt was made to murder Chaka; but the wound he received was cured by one of Farewell's companions, a circumstance which made the king very friendly to Europeans.

He suggested the use of experimental tanks for testing the powers of ship models, invented an ear-trumpet for the deaf, improved the common house-stove of his native land, cured smoky chimneys, took a lively interest in machine-guns and even sketched a flying machine.

The principal temple is sacred to Siva, and is said to have been rebuilt or enlarged by a leper emperor, who came south on a pilgrimage and was cured by bathing in the temple tank; upwards of 60,000 pilgrims visit the temple every December.

Should the leaf be intended to be cured as green tea, the fermenting process is omitted and some other processes applied, but in India very little green tea is manufactured.

Shortly after the appearance of the Provinciales, on the 24th of May 1656, occurred the miracle of the Holy Thorn, a fragment of the crown of Christ preserved at Port Royal, which cured the little Marguerite Perier of a fistula lacrymalis.

He settled in Richmondshire, twelve miles from the recluse Margaret Kirkby, whom he had cured of a violent seizure.

The prescriptions are for a great variety of ailments and afflictionsdiseases of the eye and the stomach, sores and broken bones, to make the hair grow, to keep away snakes, fleas, &c. Purgatives and diuretics are particularly numerous, and the medicines take the form of pillules, draughts, liniments, fumigations, &c. The prescriptions are often fanciful and may thus bear some absurd relation to the disease to be cured, but generally they would be to some extent effective.

As in Syria, watered by the Orontes, an image, the lower remedy part of which was a scorpion, cured the sting of against scorpions and freed the city from snakes.

In 1782 he obtained a silk gown, and was so far cured of his early modesty that he declined accepting the king's counselship if precedence over him were given to his junior, Thomas (afterwards Lord) Erskine, though the latter was the son of a peer and a most accomplished orator.

He returned to Zeeland to die, but was cured mysteriously by a strolling quack.

One bad habit he contracted, that of using profane language; but he tells us that a single reproof cured him so effectually that he never offended again.

Huygens, in a letter dated the 8th of June 1694, wrote to Leibnitz, " I do not know if you are acquainted with the accident which has happened to the good Mr Newton, namely, that he has had an attack of phrenitis, which lasted eighteen months, and of which they say his friends have cured him by means of remedies, and keeping him shut up."

They seemed about to rend the land in twain, but they really cured the English of their desperate particularism, and drove all the tribes to take as their common rulers the one great line of native kings which survived the Danish storm, and maintained itself for four generations cf desperate fighting against the invaders.

The terms were that they should give hostages, that they should depart for ever from Wessex, and that their king Guthrum should do homage to Alfred as overlord, and submit to be baptized, with thirty of his chiefs, Not only were all these conditions punctually fulfilled, but (what is more astonishing) the Danes had been so thoroughly cured of any desire to try their luck against the great king that hey left him practically unmolested for fourteen years (878892).

The practice of sleeping (incubatio) in these sanctuaries was very common, it being supposed that the god effected cures or prescribed remedies to the sick in dreams. All who were healed offered sacrifice - especially a cock - and hung up votive tablets, on which were recorded their names, their diseases and the manner in which they had been cured.

It is said that Gourock was the first place on the Clyde where herrings were cured.

The evils to be cured were different phases of one malady.

At an inn in the Orient he cured a sick monk, who later on, as bishop of Olmiitz, returned the kindness by saving the Jews from massacre.

But the history of the six years from September 1868 to December 1874 proved that the political incapacity of the Spaniards had not been cured.

The Arcadian was said to have cured the women of Sparta of a fit of madness.

B cured me, but I felt like I was touched by something then.

Right. I think the consensus is that they were called buffs by Europeans because of the color of cured hides and that evolved to buffalo.

The cured adhesive must then have sufficient strength to hold the device to the board during the solder wave process.

I have pared the devil's nails forty times, roasted them in raven's eggs, and cured agues with them.

Some ventricular arrhythmias can be cured using catheter ablation.

A crippled beggar, miraculously cured, leaps up to help them.

Additional improvements can be obtained by adding a further coating of MoS 2, ideally cured within an epoxy binder.

The PSA test, although imperfect, remains our best means of detecting prostate cancer at a stage when it can still be cured.

With your malady cured you'll live anew, nor will a deer be more active.

Such selfless devotion to public service can't fail to please in a society almost completely cured of the idea of organized labor.

We take food very seriously here and consequently offer a range of hot and cold delights including locally cured bacon and Gower free-range eggs.

Molded cured elastomers can also be supplied with conductive filler materials, such as silver, copper, nickel and graphite.

Gilded Berry poisoning can be cured if a powerful emetic is immediately administered but otherwise the effects are usually fatal.

The malady is cured by remove enchantment or cure heavy wounds or dispel magic in the meantime.

They are generally ambient cure when cured with an epoxy amine hardener.