cure | (noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: curative, remedy, therapeutic |
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curet | (noun) a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity | Synonyms: curette |
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curettage | (noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette | Synonyms: curettement |
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curette | (noun) a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity | Synonyms: curet |
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curettement | (noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette | Synonyms: curettage |
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epicure | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicurean, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
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epicurean | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
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epicureanism | (noun) a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers | - |
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insecureness | (noun) the state of being exposed to risk or anxiety | - |
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manicure | (noun) professional care for the hands and fingernails | - |
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obscureness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscurity, reconditeness |
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(noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, unimportance |
(noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination | Synonyms: obscurity |
pedicure | (noun) professional care for the feet and toenails | - |
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procurement | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurance |
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procurer | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce |
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(noun) someone who obtains or acquires | Synonyms: securer |
procuress | (noun) a woman pimp | - |
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secureness | (noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture |
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(noun) the state of freedom from fear or danger | - |
securer | (noun) someone who obtains or acquires | Synonyms: procurer |
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sinecure | (noun) an office that involves minimal duties | - |
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(noun) a benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached | - |