Curing and Treating

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Curing noun - The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization.

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Treating and curing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Treating" instead an adjective "Curing".

Nearby Words: cure, cured, curable, curability

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Curing and treating are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Curing" instead an adjective "Treating".

Nearby Words: treat, treatment, treated, treatable

As long as the cure is suppressed, the evil drug company keeps making billions off "Paralon-B" - the watered-down cure - as "treating the disease is more profitable than curing it."

Source: Withholding the Cure
Carter Pewterschmidt of Family Guy discovered a cure for cancer in the 1990's, but is keeping it to himself purely because treating a cancer patient for the rest of their lives will earn far more profit than curing them with a single treatment.

Source: Withholding the Cure
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: PharmaKom wants to suppress the cure for NAS because "treating the disease is more profitable than curing it"... but they went through the trouble of spending their profits on researching and developing a cure, anyway.

Source: Film / Johnny Mnemonic

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