water cure
hydropathy; hydrotherapy.
a method of torture in which the victim is forced to drink great quantities of water.
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How to use water cure in a sentence
But I have personally no sympathy with the baigneurs who find such a water-cure place as Royat dull.
I have since come a degree nearer on cracked wheat at a water-cure!
I have seen a salt-water cure, where patients were made to remain in the ocean ten hours a day.
As A Chinaman Saw Us | AnonymousThis, it will be seen, was a complete water-cure establishment.
The Wonders of Pompeii | Marc MonnierHe looked as though he was a sick orphan trying to save money enough to get to a water cure.
Peck's Compendium of Fun | George W. Peck
British Dictionary definitions for water cure
med a nontechnical name for hydropathy, hydrotherapy
informal a form of torture in which the victim is forced to drink very large amounts of water
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