curing

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curing¹

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verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of cure

curing²

Where it comes from

From Middle English curyng, curinge, equivalent to cure + -ing.

noun curings

  1. The act by which something is cured. As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.

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Closest in meaning: scrub, underbred, mixed, mongrel, mutt, crossbred, curative, rehab, recovery, treat, intensification, tightening, processing, set-up, stringency, toughening

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Españolcuración, guarimiento (disused)

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"curing." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/curing. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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curing. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/curing

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"curing." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/curing.

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@misc{curing_2026,
  title = {curing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/curing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}