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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization;
- Example: "the hardening of concrete"
- Example: "he tested the set of the glue"
[syn: hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cure \Cure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cured (k[=u]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curing.] [OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr. cura. See Cure,.] 1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient. [1913 Webster] The child was cured from that very hour. --Matt. xvii. 18. [1913 Webster] 2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady. [1913 Webster] To cure this deadly grief. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases. --Luke ix. 1. [1913 Webster] 3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. [1913 Webster] I never knew any man cured of inattention. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Curing \Cur"ing\ (k?r"?ng), p. a. & vb. n. of Cure. [1913 Webster] Curing house, a building in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

curing n 1: the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue" [syn: hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "curing": anhydration, blast-freezing, bottling, brining, canning, corning, cure, dehydration, desiccation, dry-curing, drying, embalming, evaporation, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, healing, irradiation, jerking, marination, mummification, pickling, potting, quick-freezing, refrigeration, remedial, remedy, restorative, salting, sanative, sanatory, seasoning, smoking, stuffing, taxidermy, therapy, tinning, vulnerary, wholesome