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anti-cure en · ADJ

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Etymology

From anti- + cure.

Meanings

1. Opposed to a cure, especially where the condition being cured may be regarded as an acceptable alternative state of being.
   • I think many of the anti-cure people focus too much on the semantics of the word "cure." How about "fix" instead? 1999, Gary Karp, Life on Wheels: For the Active Wheelchair User:
   • This is particularly true in the area of medical technology, where being anti-technology is equated with being anti-health and anti-cure. 1993, Janine Morgall Traulsen, Technology Assessment: A Feminist Perspective:
   • President Bush pitched his tent on the wrong ground when he set limits on embryo research — he sounded anti-science, anti-cure. 2007, David Frum, Comeback: Conservatism that Can Win Again:

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Antonyms

pro-cure

Relateds

antirecovery