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Cures
- noun - a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
- be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
- make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"
- prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"
- provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne";
- to heal something or someone
Curet
- noun - a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity
Curia
- noun - (Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church
- a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei
Curie
- noun - a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second
- French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
- French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
- Unit of radioactivity equal to 3.7x1010 disintegrations per second
Curio
- noun - something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
Curls
- noun - a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- a strand or cluster of hair
- American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
- form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
- play the Scottish game of curling
- shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in"
- twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
- wind around something in coils or loops
Curly
- adjective - (of hair) having curls or waves; "they envied her naturally curly hair"
Curry
- noun - (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice
- give a neat appearance to; "groom the dogs"; "dress the horses"
- season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking
- treat by incorporating fat; "curry tanned leather"
Curse
- noun - a severe affliction
- an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- an evil spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me"
- exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"
- heap obscenities upon; "The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger"
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted"
- something causing misery or death; "the bane of my life"
- utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"
- wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"
Curst
- verb - deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier; "villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"; "cursed with four daughter"; "not a cursed drop"; "his cursed stupidity"; "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning"
- exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"
- heap obscenities upon; "The taxi driver who felt he didn't get a high enough tip cursed the passenger"
- utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"
- wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child"