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[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.
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            The child was cured from that very hour. --Matt.
                                                  xvii. 18.
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   2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to
      remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
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            To cure this deadly grief.            --Shak.
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            Then he called his twelve disciples together, and
            gave them power . . . to cure diseases. --Luke ix.
                                                  1.
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   3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as
      from a bad habit.
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            I never knew any man cured of inattention. --Swift.
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   4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to
      preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or
      fish; to cure hay.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Curing \Cur"ing\ (k?r"?ng),
   p. a. & vb. n. of Cure.
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   Curing house, a building in which anything is cured;
      especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar
      is drained and dried.
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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