| 单词 | curable |
| 释义 | curable (once / 1635 pages) 1adj 2adj Something curable can be fixed or healed. A curable illness or disorder can be treated and recovered from. A bad infection can be scary, but it's most often curable with antibiotics. There are even types of cancer that, while serious, can be treated and are therefore considered curable. Another meaning of curable is "able to be hardened, or cured." You might apply several coats of a curable coating after sanding and staining your dining room table. The Latin root is cura, "care or concern," and also "means of healing." WORD FAMILYcurable: curability, curableness, incurable+/curative: curatively, curatives/cure: curable, curative, cured, cures, curing/cured: uncured/incurable: incurability, incurableness, incurables, incurably USAGE EXAMPLESBreast cancer was increasingly being caught at stages 1 or 2, when it’s more curable. Washington Post(Dec 09, 2016) Mr. Blankfein revealed last year that he had what he described as a “highly curable” form of lymphoma. New York Times(Nov 21, 2016) Still, the feeling of voiceless-ness that led to “Theatrical Selections” is telling, and curable. Washington Post(Nov 18, 2016) 1 adj curing or healing is possible 2curable diseases Ant incurable incapable of being cured adj capable of being hardened by some additive or other agent Syn hardened, tempered, toughened, treated made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment |
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