Word Finder - curing

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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.

Several grades are produced in Venezuela, determined by geographical position, altitude and method of curing and preparing for market.

Diseases which occur in curing are important.

Air curing is essentially similar to sun curing.

Air goods, such as cushions, beds, gas bags, and so forth, are made of textile fabrics which have been coated with mixed rubber either by the spreading process above described, or by means of heated rollers, the curing being then effected by steam heat.

When centrifugals were adopted for purging the whole crop (they had long been used for curing the second or third sugars), the system then obtaining of running the sugar into wagons or coolers, which was necessary for the second and third sugars' cooked only to string point, was continued, but latterly " crystallization in movement, a development of the system which forty years ago or more existed in refineries and in Cuba, has come into general use, and with great advantage, especially where proprietors have been able to erect appropriate buildings and machinery for carrying out the system efficiently.

Sandy soils produce tobaccos with a thin leaf, curing to a yellow or bright red colour.

They are eaten fresh, or as nearly fresh as may be, for the art of curing them is not generally practised, owing to the exigencies of the salt monopoly.

The estates are usually very large, and are divided up into fields which are cultivated in rotation, each field being given several years' rest after producing one crop. The tobacco is air-cured, fires being only employed during continuous wet weather, and the process of curing occupies four or five weeks.

Solvents Many polymers contain solvent additives to vary the viscosity and prevent premature curing.

The only curing agents used are natural sea salts and oak smoke.

The required thickness of the spread sheet is very often secured by the rubber-faced surfaces of two cloths being united before curing.

In this he claimed to have made the most salutary reform because all physicians from Hippocrates had treated diseases by depletion and debilitating measures with the object of curing by elimination.

Many herbs have had the power of curing all diseases attributed to them, and have hence had the name of "all-heal"; such have been, among others, the mistletoe, the woundwort (Stachys palustris), the yarrow or milfoil, and the great valerian.

In beetroot sugar manufacture the operations are washing, slicing, diffusing, saturating, sulphuring, evaporation, concentration and curing.

Sun curing, now but little practised in the United States, is the simplest method.

In flue curing, also known as the Virginian cure, fires are set outside the barn; and the heat led in iron pipes or flues, into the building are under the suspended tobacco, which is placed there quite fresh from the field.

By whichever way treated, the tobaccoleaf after curing is brittle and cannot be handled without crumbling to powder.

Fermentation is essentially a chemical process due apparently to the presence of enzymes, developed in the leaf during the earlier curing stages.

It is only removed upon the curing of a victim, therefore dead victims are still likely to remain contagious in some way.

If by any chance you should be as illiterate as I, and not know them, it is worth while curing the defect.

He says that the treatment of HIV/AIDS with nutrition is similar to " curing " type-1 diabetes with insulin.

Professional rod builders use either two pack epoxy high build resin, or sometimes a UV curing system.

This large red earthenware dish was used in Cheshire for curing ham.

This is because last year he misread an article about faster refresh rates curing headaches.

This may involve the application of damp Hessian or more usually a spray applied curing membrane.

For our purposes here, the crucial importance of the bodhisattva ideal in Mahāyāna Buddhism is that the bodhisattva cures himself by curing others.

Gene therapy shows promise for curing otherwise incurable diseases.

The tincture, made from the wood, also had the reputation of curing leprosy.

Inappropriate therapy can have overtones of " curing " rather than " teaching " .

G4 Pond Sealer A moisture curing single part polyurethane varnish ideal for sealing damp porous surfaces prior to using release agent.

International light makes a full line of UV curing radiometers designed specifically for each application.

Most samples exhibited a reduced sheet resistivity resultant from film curing over the duration of the test.

Jesus had in fact scored a victory, although it is hidden in the gospels as the curing of the Gadarene swine.

The tincture was formerly used as a bitter tonic and antiperiodic and had the reputation of curing leprosy.

Analysis of the teeth shows prehistoric dentists had a go at curing toothache with drills made from flint heads.

Continue to use quartz tungsten halogen curing lights as plasma arc curing lights appear to confer no clinical advantage at the present time.

There are hundreds of different ways of curing warts.

There is no method known of curing this disease, and all that can be done is to take every precaution to eradicate it, by pulling up and burning diseased plants, isolating the infected area by means of trenches, and avoiding growing cotton, or an allied plant such as the ochro (Hibiscus esculentus), in the field.

Firstly the cable must be robust enough to withstand the extreme forces experienced during compaction or cement curing processes.

And curing all James Randi types and professional skeptics of their fear of the unknown.

Pay particular attention to curing times, temperature requirements, safety instructions and measurements.

Mangosteen juice, often sold under the brand name XanGo, has recently come under fire for its claims of curing everything from eczema to cancer.

According to some research, people have consumed ginger for over 2000 years as a way of curing various ailments.

While there seems to be no concrete evidence that proves the curing abilities of the EPO oil, GLA and omega-6 fatty acids, studies are ongoing.

The curing process of wicker is completed in three steps.

Curing it may require removal of parts of the jaw and mouth, including the tongue.

If you can determine the exact foods your dog is allergic to, you stand a good chance of curing his condition.

Among other things, they will know what types of tools you should use, what kind of curing time an adhesive will need, and what types of nails you should use.

This heat curing process is what gives ceramic tiles the capability to withstand the heat of the kitchen and the bottoms of hot pots and pans.

These range from the absurd, like curing baldness, to the dangerous, like offering false hope to those suffering from multiple sclerosis, AIDS and cancer.