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Antonyms for curedcured

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  1. cured, healed, recoveredadjective

    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

    Antonyms:
    fresh, ill, unprocessed, unseasoned, sick

    Synonyms:
    aged, recovered, vulcanized, vulcanised, corned, healed, recovered(p)

  2. cured, vulcanized, vulcanisedadjective

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

    Antonyms:
    fresh, ill, unseasoned, sick, unprocessed

    Synonyms:
    recovered, vulcanised, healed, vulcanized, aged, corned

  3. curedadjective

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

    Antonyms:
    unseasoned, ill, fresh, unprocessed, sick

    Synonyms:
    recovered, vulcanised, healed, vulcanized, aged, corned

  4. curedadjective

    (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry

    Antonyms:
    unprocessed, fresh, ill, sick, unseasoned

    Synonyms:
    recovered, vulcanised, healed, vulcanized, aged, corned

  5. corned, curedadjective

    (used especially of meat) cured in brine

    Antonyms:
    fresh, sick, unprocessed, ill, unseasoned

    Synonyms:
    recovered, vulcanised, healed, vulcanized, aged, corned

  6. aged, curedadjective

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

    Antonyms:
    unseasoned, ill, fresh, sick, unprocessed

    Synonyms:
    aged, recovered, vulcanized, vulcanised, elderly, corned, healed, ripened, senior, older, aged(a), of age(p)

How to use cured in a sentence?

  1. Proverb:

    A doctor will take care of the rich man; the poor man is cured with work.

  2. André Aciman:

    We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste

  3. Sarah Keating:

    My husband was diagnosed in 2001 with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma— cured by the Abramson Cancer Center, so I'm very committed to the cause.

  4. Sam Joeckel:

    I believe this goes against the Christian beliefs that I hold closely, and that PBA claims to hold closely, pBA has chosen to reject the words of Martin Luther King, Jr.: ‘Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, [racial] injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.’.

  5. Sir Isaiah Berlin:

    Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance -- these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

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#4320ill
#4358sick
#17769cured
#49390unprocessed
#234924unseasoned

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