Definition of cured

"cured" in the verb sense

1. bring around, cure, heal

provide a cure for, make healthy again

"The treatment cured the boy's acne"

"The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"

2. cure

prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve

"cure meats"

"cure pickles"

"cure hay"

3. cure

make (substances) hard and improve their usability

"cure resin"

"cure cement"

"cure soap"

4. cure

be or become preserved

"the apricots cure in the sun"

"cured" in the adjective sense

1. cured, healed, recovered

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. cured, vulcanized, vulcanised

used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)

3. cured

used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening

4. cured

used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry

5. corned, cured

used especially of meat) cured in brine

6. aged, cured

used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)

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Quotations for cured

What cannot be cured,
Must be endured. [ Proverb ]

Pride is scarce ever cured. [ Proverb ]

Old sores are hardly cured. [ Proverb ]

Like things are cured by like.

A disease known is half cured. [ Proverb ]

Sudden love is the latest cured. [ La Bruyère ]

Some evils are cured by contempt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Contraries are cured by contraries.

He who is born a fool is never cured. [ Proverb ]

An ill wound is cured, not an ill name. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Ill wounds may be cured, but not ill names. [ Proverb ]

Ulcers cannot be cured, that are concealed. [ Proverb ]

Frenzy, heresy, and jealousy, seldom cured. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Men blush to be cured by a shameful remedy. [ Proverb ]

A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [ Goethe ]

In love, one is cured of one illusion by another.

Diseases of the eye are to be cured with the elbow. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal. [ Seneca ]

Loquacity is the fistula of the soul, ever running, and never cured. [ Proverb ]

I have cured her from lying in the hedge, quoth the good man when he married his daughter. [ Proverb ]

In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never comes until after the disorder is cured. [ Mme. de la Tour ]

When the heart is still agitated by the remains of a passion, we are more ready to receive a new one than when we are entirely cured. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb. [ Johnson ]

A very desperate habit; one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology. [ Holmes ]

Enthusiasm is an evil much less to be dreaded than superstition. Superstition is the disease of nations; enthusiasm that of individuals: the former grows inveterate by time: the latter is cured by it. [ Robert Hall ]

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse - a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. [ Colton ]

cured in Scrabble®

The word cured is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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cured in Words With Friends™

The word cured is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters cured:

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Words containing the sequence cured

Words that start with cured (1 word)

Words with cured in them (2 words)

Word Growth involving cured

Shorter words in cured

cur cure

re cure

re red

Longer words containing cured

drycured

manicured unmanicured

noncured

obscured obscuredly

obscured reobscured

obscured unobscured

overcured

photocured

procured

recured

secured resecured

secured unsecured

sinecured

uncured

unpedicured