cured

(verb) provide a cure for, make healthy again. Synonyms: bring around, cure, heal. Examples: "The treatment cured the boy's acne." "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to."

(verb) prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve. Synonyms: cure. Examples: "Cure meats." "Cure pickles." "Cure hay."

(verb) make (substances) hard and improve their usability. Synonyms: cure. Examples: "Cure resin." "Cure cement." "Cure soap."

(verb) be or become preserved. Synonyms: cure. Example: "The apricots cure in the sun."

(adj) freed from illness or injury. Synonyms: healed, recovered. Examples: "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."

(adj) (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity). Synonyms: vulcanized, vulcanised.

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

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

(adj) (used especially of meat) cured in brine. Synonyms: corned.

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