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Definition of Cured
1. Adjective. Freed from illness or injury. "When the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium"
2. Adjective. (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity).
3. Adjective. (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening.
4. Adjective. (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry.
5. Adjective. (used especially of meat) cured in brine.
6. Adjective. (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process ('aged' is pronounced as one syllable).
Definition of Cured
1. Verb. (past of cure) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cured
1. cure [v] - See also: cure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cured
Literary usage of Cured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"It took much work on the part of the pathologist to convince the practitioner
that clinically cured cases of the so-called "lesser disease" were only ..."
2. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1876)
"We now give you the actual result of and experiment made during the past season,
for the express purpose of deciding this question: Does tobacco cured off ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"9.5 CASES OF CHOLECYSTITIS TREATED BY EXCISION cured 4 SUMMARY Total number of
... Primary cholecystectomy would almost certainly have cured this patient. ..."
4. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1905)
"INCREASING THE DEMAND FOR CALIFORNIA cured FRUIT PRODUCTS BY ADVERTISING. ...
Even with every pound of our cured fruit products in the State handled on the ..."
5. The Lancet (1842)
"cured, 9; relieved, 12; irregu- Under a month 5 Anterior Duration. б to 12 months
3 1 to G ... cured, 32 ; irregular, 10. Average duration of treatment ..."
6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"Out of 2.350 patients with mental disease, 556 have been cured. 451 improved, 88
have escaped, and 618 have died; a percentage therefore of 23 of cures. ..."
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