cure
noun
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
half-cured
-
a word derived from
cure.
Example Sentences
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Instead he puts on pop-eyed fits, refers to the asylum darkly as "that place," protests too much in trying to give an accurate picture of a half-cured madman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then everything grew dazed about her—Hanover Lodge and the Princess, the empty phantasmagoria of courts, balls and routs, the disputes and reconciliations of royal Dukes, Louis and his half-cured amours with the Arlington.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
It confronts thousands of wives and children in the person of half-cured fathers, infected nurse-maids, and others intimately associated with their personal life.
From The Third Great Plague A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People by John H. (John Hinchman) Stokes
He smelled of oil, and smoke, and half-cured hides; yet he met me as a ruler meets an ambassador.
From Montlivet by Alice Prescott Smith
On April 26, he arrived again at the front, with his arm half-cured and the wounds scarcely healed.
From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Louise Morgan Sill
