'Cured' definitions:
Definition of 'cured'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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 [syn: cured, healed, recovered]
adjective
(used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) [syn: cured, vulcanized, vulcanised]
adjective
(used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening
adjective
(used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry
adjective
(used especially of meat) cured in brine [syn: corned, cured]
adjective
(used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable) [syn: aged, cured]
Definition of 'Cured'
From: GCIDE
- Cure \Cure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cured (k[=u]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curing.] [OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr. cura. See Cure,.]
- 1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient. [1913 Webster]
- The child was cured from that very hour. --Matt. xvii. 18. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady. [1913 Webster]
- To cure this deadly grief. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases. --Luke ix. 1. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. [1913 Webster]
- I never knew any man cured of inattention. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay. [1913 Webster]