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cured

adjective
  1. (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)
    aged
  2. (used especially of meat) cured in brine
    corned
  3. (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry
  4. (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening
  5. (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)
    vulcanizedvulcanised
  6. freed from illness or injury
    “the patient appears cured”
    healedrecovered