curing
Plural: curings
Noun
- The process of preserving or treating something, or restoring health.
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- The act by which something is cured.
Verb
Verb Forms: cured, curing, cures
- Preserving food; remedying an illness or problem.
- provide a cure for, make healthy again
- prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve
- make (substances) hard and improve their usability
- be or become preserved
- present participle and gerund of cure
Examples
- Curing a bad tile rack often involves trading letters, despite the lost turn.
- His strategy involved CURING his poor letter rack by strategically placing high-value tiles.
Origin / Etymology
From cure + -ing.
Synonyms
bring around, cure, hardening, heal, set, solidification, solidifying
Scrabble Score: 9
curing: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcuring: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
curing: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary