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Definition: Cured |
CuredAdjective1. 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. 2. (used of rubber, e.g.) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity). 3. (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening. 4. (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry. 5. (used especially of meat) cured in brine. 6. (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cured" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Chemical Industry | Of paint, condition in which, for all practical purposes, the paint has reached its final state of polymerization and possesses its final physical and chemical properties. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: CuredSynonyms: aged (adj), corned (adj), healed (adj), recovered (adj), vulcanised (adj), vulcanized (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cured |
| English words defined with "cured": allyl resin ♦ black olive, bully beef ♦ Canadian bacon, corn beef, corned, corned beef, curability, curableness, Curing house ♦ Dunfish ♦ flitch ♦ hay, home-cured ♦ incurability, incurableness ♦ Medicable ♦ Quoddies ♦ ripe olive ♦ Saint Anthony's fire, salt pork, Sanable, side of bacon, smoke-cured, smoked, smoked mackerel, smoked salmon, smoke-dried, stockfish, strip, sweet pickle ♦ thermoset, thermosetting ♦ Warish, White herring. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cured": Warish. (references) |
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Screenplays | He may be cured, but his personality hasn't improved any. (American Gothic; writing credit: Mariana Reyes; Doris Segu) We've almost gotten that stammer cured. (What's Up, Doc?; writing credit: Peter Bogdanovich; Buck Henry) Love - a dangerous disease instantly cured by marriage. (Law & Order; writing credit: Peter Yeldham) I was cured, all right. (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) If I'd been going all this time, I'd probably almost be cured by now. (Sleeper; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
Lyrics | Doctor says you're cured but you still feel the pain (NO ONE IS TO BLAME; performing artist: Howard Jones) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cured Duck (1945) The Hams That Couldn't Be Cured (1942) Cured in the Excitement (1927) Mose Is Cured (1917) When Slim Was Home Cured (1916) | |
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 | Poster explaining how gonnorhea "The Great Crippler" can be cured in 4hrs with penicillin. Credit: CDC. |  | No home remedy or quack doctor ever cured syphilis or gonorrhea. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | So you think you've been cured of high blood pressure : High Blood Pressure...Treat it for Life. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Only x-ray-radium-surgery-ever cured Cancer. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Gravely's best flue cured Prepared by C.R. Sisson : Virginia smoking tobacco / / Herline & Hensel, Lith. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wagon load of tobacco to be cured, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Loading cured tobacco for market. Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Near Douglas, Georgia. Sharecroppers grade the cured leaves on the porches and sort them to go to the tobacco auction. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cured pork of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client at Calvert County, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | No home remedy or quack doctor ever cured syphilis or gonorrhea See your doctor or local health officer / / Karsakov. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ambroise Pare | I treated him, God cured him. |
Anton Chekhov | When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured. |
E. M. Cioran | God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. |
Emile Zola | Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau | Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity. |
Matthew Prior | Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived. |
Robert Burton | What can't be cured must be endured. |
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John Locke | 1690 | At first, when some certain kind of regiment was once approved, it may be nothing was then farther thought upon for the manner of governing, but all permitted unto their wisdom and discretion which were to rule, till by experience they found this for all parts very inconvenient, so as the thing which they had devised for a remedy, did indeed but increase the sore which it should have cured. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | If you had a little more faith, and if you could have been in her cell, she would have cured your leg by touching it. |
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Health | No. OHS cannot be cured. (references) | |
But CRF cannot be cured. (references) | ||
PID can be cured with antibiotics. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of. A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester: "If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester." "The reason, Sire, that you would thrive," The fool said -- "if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit." Oogum Bem KING'S :EVIL:, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, but has now to be treated by the physicians. Thus 'the most pious Edward" of England used to lay his royal hand upon the ailing subjects and make them whole -- a crowd of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great essay of art; but at his touch, Such sanctity hath Heaven given his hand, They presently amend, as the "Doctor" in Macbeth hath it. This useful property of the royal hand could, it appears, be transmitted along with other crown properties; for according to "Malcolm," 'tis spoken To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. But the gift somewhere dropped out of the line of succession: the later sovereigns of England have not been tactual healers, and the disease once honored with the name "king's evil" now bears the humbler one of "scrofula," from scrofa, a sow. The date and author of the following epigram are known only to the author of this dictionary, but it is old enough to show that the jest about Scotland's national disorder is not a thing of yesterday. Ye Kynge his evill in me laye, Wh. he of Scottlande charmed awaye. He layde his hand on mine and sayd: "Be gone!" Ye ill no longer stayd. But O ye wofull plyght in wh. I'm now y-pight: I have ye itche! The superstition that maladies can be cured by royal taction is dead, but like many a departed conviction it has left a monument of custom to keep its memory green. The practice of forming a line and shaking the President's hand had no other origin, and when that great dignitary bestows his healing salutation on strangely visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he and his patients are handing along an extinguished torch which once was kindled at the altar-fire of a faith long held by all classes of men. It is a beautiful and edifying "survival" -- one which brings the sainted past close home in our "business and bosoms." |
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Bill Clinton | Our of Democracy must be not only the envy of the world, but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. |
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Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | This, I think, can not be perfectly cured, and it would be worse in both cases 'after' the separation of the sections than before. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | For we have children to teach, and we have sick to be cured, and we have men to be freed. |
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| "Cured" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 73.50% of the time. "Cured" is used about 366 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 73.5% | 269 | 17,948 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 18.03% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.56% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.91% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 366 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cured": be cured ♦ can be cured ♦ cured beef ♦ cured cod ♦ cured core ♦ cured ham ♦ cured meat ♦ cured products. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "cured": addition-cured, home-cured, light-cured, mild-cured, pay-as-you're-cured, pre-cured, salt-cured, smoke-cured, sun-cured, wine-cured. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cured meat | 13 | cured fully live rock | 3 |
cured in place pipe | 10 | can cured herpes | 3 |
cured ham process | 7 | cured herring | 3 |
cured ham | 7 | sugar cured ham | 2 |
cured live rock | 6 | cured in pipe.com place | 2 |
cured salmon | 6 | cured pork | 2 |
salt cured ham | 5 | cured hiv | 2 |
country cured ham | 5 | cured moisture polyurethane | 2 |
cured platinum silicone | 4 | cured gasketing in place | 2 |
beef cured smoked | 4 | cured meat type | 2 |
flue cured tobacco | 3 | dry cured ham | 2 |
cured italian meat | 3 | ||
dry cured ham | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "cured"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | شَفَى (be cured, heal, to cure), لحم مقدد (cured meat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 治疗 (Cure, Curing, remediation, therapeutic, therapeutical, treatment, vetted, vetting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hærdet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitgehard. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kovettunut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | polymerisé, durci. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | geheilt (cures, healed, sanctified). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καπνιστός, θεραπευμένος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"תרפא (be cured, be healed, cure oneself, recover), ל"רפא (be cured, be healed, recover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyógyult (healed, recovered, whole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kapok (cured of a habit, get a fright, kapok (utk kasur)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | polimerizzato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 乾 (dried, emperor, heaven). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほし (dried, star). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 치료하" (Doctored, Remedied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uredcay polimerizado. (various references) лечить;инф)восстанавливать лечебный. (various references) curado (team), polimerizado. (various references) rökt skinka (cured ham, gammon, ham). (various references) füme morina (cured cod). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | dar-ra. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 17, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai epetimhsen autw o ihsouV kai exhlqen ap autou to daimonion kai eqerapeuqh o paiV apo thV wraV ekeinhV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tunc accesserunt discipuli ad Iesum secreto et dixerunt quare nos non potuimus eicere illum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ænd þa þredde se hælend hine. & sedeofel hine for-let. & se cnapa wæs on þaretide ge-hæled. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne the disciplis camen to Jhesu priueli, and seiden to hym, Whi myyten not we caste hym out? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And Iesus rebuked the devyll and he ca out of him. And ye child was healed even yt same houre. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Jesus rebuked the demon, and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Jesus gave orders to the unclean spirit, and it went out of him: and the boy was made well from that hour. |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 17, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | Ug gibadlong ni Jesus ang yawa, ug migula kini gikan sa bata, ug ang bata naayo dihadiha. |
| Croatian | I zaprijeti Isus zloduhu te on iziðe iz njega. I ozdravi djeèak toga èasa. |
| Danish | Og Jesus talte ham hårdt til, og den onde Ånd for ud af ham, og Drengen blev helbredt fra samme Time. |
| Dutch | En Jezus bestrafte hem, en de duivel ging van hem uit, en het kind werd genezen van die ure af. |
| Finnish | Ja Jeesus nuhteli riivaajaa, ja se lähti pojasta, ja poika oli siitä hetkestä terve. |
| French | Jésus parla sévèrement au démon, qui sortit de lui, et l`enfant fut guéri l`heure même. |
| German | Und Jesus bedrohte ihn; und der Teufel fuhr aus von ihm, und der Knabe ward gesund zu derselben Stunde. |
| Haitian Creole | Jezi pale sevè ak move lespri a. Lespri a soti. Menm lè a, ti nonm lan geri. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu Yesus memerintahkan roh jahat yang di dalam anak itu keluar. Dan roh jahat itu keluar, lalu anak itu sembuh pada saat itu juga. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu Yesus pun menengking dia, sehingga keluarlah setan itu daripadanya; maka budak itu pun pulihlah pada ketika itu juga. |
| Latvian | Tad mâcekïi vieni piegâja pie Jçzus un jautâja: Kâpçc mçs nevarçjâm to izdzît? |
| Manx Gaelic | As vaggyr Yeesey er y drogh-spyrryd, as hie eh magh ass: as va'n lhiannoo er ny lheihys veih'n oor shen. |
| Maori | Na ka riria te rewera e Ihu; a puta ana i roto i a ia; a ora ake te tamaiti i taua wa pu ano. |
| Portuguese | Então Jesus repreendeu ao demônio, o qual saiu de menino, que desde aquela hora ficou curado. |
| Rumanian | Isus a certat dracul, care a iewit afarq din el. Wi bqiatul s`a tqmqduit chiar kn ceasul acela. |
| Shuar | Itiarim Jesus yajauch wakanin jiiki akupkamiayi Uchí Ayashínia. Túramtai nu chichamaik pénker ajasmiayi. |
| Swahili | Basi, Yesu akamkemea huyo pepo, naye akamtoka, na yule mtoto akapona wakati huohuo. |
| Swedish | Och Jesus tilltalade honom strängt, och den onde anden for ut ur honom; och gossen var botad från den stunden. |
| Uma | Ngkai ree, Yesus mpopetibo' anudaa' to mpopedahi ana' toei. Palai-nami anudaa', pai' mo'uri' -imi-hawo topeda' toei. |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "cured": manicured, obscured, overcured, pedicured, precured, procured, resecured, secured, uncured, unsecured. (additional references) | |
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"Cured" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acuerdo, acured, cere, cerod, clure, corde, coreld, corid, corod, Couret, cred, cruad, crued, cruex, cruted, cuder, cuer, Cuerden, cuked, cuned, Cunred, curee, curel, curex, curld, curre, curred, curruc, cuted, dured, jured, kored, korred, kudred, kure, Mcgredy, ocured, sured, ucre, Ucrel, ured, Zurada. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cured" (pronounced kyuh"rd) |
| 5 | k y uh" r d | obscured, procured, secured, unsecured. |
| 4 | -y uh" r d | endured, inured, matured. |
| 3 | -uh" r d | allured, assured, ensured, insured, lured, moored, reassured, reinsured, toured, uninsured. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crude. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-r-u" | |
-1 letter: crud, cued, curd, cure, duce, dure, ecru, rude, rued. | |
-2 letters: cud, cue, cur, due, ecu, rec, red, rue, urd. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-r-u" | |
+1 letter: cruder, crudes, curbed, curded, curdle, curled, curred, cursed, curved, decury, ducker, reduce, ruched, rucked, truced. | |
+2 letters: accrued, adducer, chudder, churned, churred, cloured, coursed, courted, crudded, crudely, crudest, cruised, crumbed, crumped, crunode, crusade, crushed, crusted, cudbear, cuddler, curated, curdier, curdled, curdler, curdles, curried, decorum, decurve, douceur, duckers, duckier, durance, eductor, eructed, euchred, inducer, lurched, produce, recused, reduced, reducer, reduces, rescued, ruckled, scoured, secured, seducer, sourced, spruced, traduce, trucked, ulcered, uncured. | |
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