Cure and Hurting

Cure

Cure verb - To bring about recovery from.

Hurting is an antonym for cure.

Nearby Words: cured, curing, cureless, curable, curability

Hurting

Hurting adjective - Causing or feeling bodily pain.

Cure is an antonym for hurting in topics: cause mental pain, experience pain.

Nearby Words: hurt, hurtful

Both words in one sentence

  • Scars Are Forever A few magical series may have the Healing Hands to completely cure or regenerate these wounds, but an author set on hurting their characters can find ways to avoid removing them.
  • Use Your Head As he's in his fairy form, there's not much he can do, but he manages to drag Cure Diamond along with him as he smacks the Jikochuu with his head, essentially defeating it while hurting his cheek.
    Source: Use Your Head
  • During the years of Pretty Cure, many of the Cures who have siblings got angry when a villain dared to attack those said siblings, but the only one who got really mad was none other than Cure Black, who actually killed a villain (Gekidrago) for revenge of hurting her Annoying Younger Sibling.
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