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cured

cured

2.7
No longer sick after treatment
  • adjective
  • /kjʊrd/
translation icon : curado
  • After months of treatment, she was finally cured of her illness and felt healthier than ever.

You let me parachute you into the Antarctic, you're cured, right?

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Examples

  • And that is why people don't get cured from HIV, AIDS.

  • So only one person in the world, we think, has actually been cured of HIV.

  • So she's been cured from a blood cancer.

  • Why can we think that his success has cured his father's Alzheimer's?

  • He believed that B pollen cured his allergies.

  • The doctor announced that the patient had been cured and could return to his normal activities.

  • Thanks to advances in medicine, many people can now be cured of diseases that were once considered incurable.

Synonyms

healed
vscured
1.0

Not sick or hurt anymore and back to normal

is more about removing the disease itself than about full wholeness
recovered
vscured
3.1

Back to normal health after being sick or injured

focuses on full restoration often by medical action rather than gradual return

Antonyms

sick
∞ 1.0

Not well because of illness

unhealed
1 6.3

Not fully recovered after a physical injury or emotional hurt

Compounds

salt-cured
1 3.8

Made with salt so meat or fish do not go bad

home-cured
5.8

Food made and kept at home by salting, smoking, or drying

smoke-cured
  • Specialized
4.9

Meat or fish preserved and given a smoky taste by drying in smoke

How Recovered

cured
2.7
recovered
3.1
sick
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

cured positive

Morphology

cured = cure (transparent) = cure + ed

Regular participial adjective meaning 'no longer suffering from an illness' derived directly from the verb 'cure'.

Etymology

Cured comes from Latin curare, which means 'to take care of' and is like the English word care. So when a person is cured, they have been 'taken care of' and are back to health.