Meanings
curing1
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of cure
curing2
plural curings
- The act by which something is cured.
As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.
1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
curing · noun
- Middle Englishcuryng
- Englishcuring
From Middle English curyng, curinge, equivalent to cure + -ing.
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Latin sānātiō
- sānātiōTranslations
Spanish curación, guarimiento (disused)
- curaciónTranslations
- guarimiento (disused)Translations
Turkish kürleme
- kürlemeTranslations
Cite this entry
curing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curing
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