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US
/ˈkjʊɹəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /kjˈɔːɹəbəl/ ]
[ UK /kjˈɔːɹəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
able to be cured or healed
curable diseases - capable of being hardened by some additive or other agent
How To Use curable In A Sentence
- ‘I find most skeptics to be incurable optimists,’ Hyde continues.
- Here, hundreds of millions of men, women and children are suffering from an incurable disease, chronic arsonicosis, and millions more are at risk.
- There are human conflicts, but they are by their nature curable, because there's always a higher principle, lurking in the background.
- Colonoscopic surveillance in colitis should reduce cancer related death compared with routine clinical care, by detecting early curable cancer.
- Since no water was procurable, I did the next logical thing.
- Being the incurable stickybeak that I am, I went back thru the archives ’til I found the thread you mentioned. Cheeseburger Gothic » Newly renovated Ladies Lounge.
- Showing little progress and imposing a burden on educators and their resources, the incurables were gradually abandoned in favor of those who showed more promise.
- Advances in medicine are increasing life expectancy and diseases which are dread killers today will be curable tomorrow.
- John's ex-wife is also hospitalized, with incurable cancer.
- You're a hopeless/incurable romantic.