water cure

noun

1. hydropathy; hydrotherapy.
2. a method of torture in which the victim is forced to drink great quantities of water.

water cure

noun

1. med a nontechnical name for hydropathy hydrotherapy
2. informal.
   a form of torture in which the victim is forced to drink very large amounts of water

Word History and Origins

Origin of water cure¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

But I have personally no sympathy with the baigneurs who find such a water-cure place as Royat dull.

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I have since come a degree nearer on cracked wheat at a water-cure!

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I have seen a salt-water cure, where patients were made to remain in the ocean ten hours a day.

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This, it will be seen, was a complete water-cure establishment.

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He looked as though he was a sick orphan trying to save money enough to get to a water cure.

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