- a word derived from cure.
Example Sentences
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He became disenchanted about the first two, and out of this half-cured 19th century disenchantment he created his 20th century art�as tragic and as comic and perhaps ultimately as mystifying as life itself.
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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.
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The bean is perfectly white till the silver skin starts; it then begins gradually to assume the dark, or what is called the half-cured appearance.
But she did not pause until the last patch of hair crisped close to the half-cured surface of the hide.
From Into the Primitive by Bennett, Robert Ames
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 Sill, Louise Morgan