outcure

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verb

To cure more effectively than; to surpass in curing.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

verboutcure (third-person singular simple present outcures, present participle outcuring, simple past and past participle outcured)

present singular third person outcures · participle present outcuring · participle past outcured · past outcured

  1. transitiveTo cure more effectively than; to surpass in curing.

    The Christian Scientists were outcured and outtalked; they ceased to make converts in the congregation, […]

    1943, Louis Tucker, Clerical Errors, page 218
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    The “placebo effect”—the power of mind over illness—is often so strong that the sugar pills frequently outcure the real drugs!

    2015, Ray C. Stedman, God's Loving Word

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Chicago

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