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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

outcure en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + cure.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To cure more effectively than; to surpass in curing.
    • 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:
    • The Christian Scientists were outcured and outtalked; they ceased to make converts in the congregation, […] 1943, Louis Tucker, Clerical Errors, page 218:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
outcured Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outcured Tense=Past lexicographic
outcures Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outcuring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic