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CURING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
Example:
he tested the set of the glue
Synonyms:
curing; hardening; set; solidification; solidifying
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("curing" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "curing"):
congealment; congelation (the process of congealing; solidification by (or as if by) freezing)
Holonyms ("curing" is a part of...):
plastination (a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened)
Derivation:
cure (prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb cure
