Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: cured
IPA transcription: [kj'ʊɹd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: aged, cured
    Meaning: (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
  • Synonyms: corned, cured
    Meaning: (used especially of meat) cured in brine
  • Synonyms: cured
    Meaning: (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry
  • Synonyms: cured
    Meaning: (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening
  • Synonyms: cured, vulcanized, vulcanised
    Meaning: (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)
  • Synonyms: cured, healed, recovered
    Meaning: 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
Usage examples
  • "I'm cured, father," he said.
  • "Agnes, you must not imagine you are cured.
  • Of one that was cured of a palsy at his tomb.
  • I hope they won't cure me; I vow I won't be cured.
  • are likewise cured by Apis in the speediest and easiest manner.
  • A man is dying of cancer, and do I think it can be cured by a fast?
  • He cured many sick: if God, why did he not give the whole world health?
  • Toby had cured me of asking questions. He stopped my fiddling if I did.
  • This is easily cured by medicine, but more safely and simply without it.
  • Perhaps he had been quite cured of his longing for a hard heart like hers.