Curing

What it means

1. (verb) To restore to health. “Unaided nature cured him.”
2. (verb) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end. “Unaided nature cured his ailments.”
3. (verb) To cause to be rid of (a defect). “Experience will cure him of his naïveté.”
4. (verb) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use. “The smoke and heat cures the meat.”
5. (verb) To bring about a cure of any kind.
6. (verb) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use. “The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.”
7. (verb) To preserve (food), typically by salting
8. (verb) To solidify or gel. “The parts were curing in the autoclave.”
9. (verb) To become healed.
10. (verb) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
11. (noun) The act by which something is cured.

Letter analysis

• Curing contains 6 letters: 2 vowel(s) and 4 consonant(s).
• It uses 6 unique letters.
• Estimated syllable count: 2.
• Scrabble-style letter score: 9.

Sub-words

• cuing
• incur
• ruing
• runic
• grin
• ring
• ruin
• rung
• uric
• cur
• gin
• gnu
• gun
• inc
• rig
• rug
• run
• urn

Related words

Other 6-letter words

• abacus
• abased
• abases
• abated
• abates
• abbess
• abbeys
• abbots
• abbrev
• abduct
• abhors
• abided
• abides
• abject
• abjure
• ablaze
• ablest
• abloom

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Words starting with CUR

• cur
• curable
• curacies
• curacy
• curate
• curates
• curative
• curatives
• curator
• curators
• curb
• curbed
• curbing
• curbs
• curd
• curdle
• curdled
• curdles

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Words ending with ING

• abandoning
• abashing
• abasing
• abating
• abbreviating
• abdicating
• abducting
• abetting
• abhorring
• abiding
• abjuring
• abnegating
• abolishing
• abominating
• aborting
• abounding
• abrading
• abridging

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