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noun

hydropathy; hydrotherapy.

a method of torture in which the victim is forced to drink great quantities of water.

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Origin of water cure

First recorded in 1835–45

Words nearby water cure

water cooler, watercourse, watercraft, water crake, watercress, water cure, water curtain, water cycle, water diviner, waterdog, water down

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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.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 24, 1887|Various
I have since come a degree nearer on cracked wheat at a water-cure!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865|Various
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|Anonymous
This, it will be seen, was a complete water-cure establishment.
The Wonders of Pompeii|Marc Monnier

He 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

water cure

noun

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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