Definition: (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
Definition: (used especially of meat) cured in brine
Main entry: cured
Definition: (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry
Main entry: cured
Definition: (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening
Main entry: cured, vulcanised, vulcanized
Definition: (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)
Main entry: cured, healed, recovered
Definition: freed from illness or injury
Usage: the patient appears cured; the incision is healed; appears to be entirely recovered; when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium- Normon Cameron