curing

1. 1.

   the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization

   “the hardening of concrete”

   “he tested the set of the glue”

   Synonymshardeningsolidifyingsolidificationset

   Broadernatural process

   Narrowercongealment

   Part ofplastination

Other forms of curing

plural

curings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about curing

What does curing mean?

curing means "the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization".

How many syllables are in curing?

curing has 2 syllables: cur-ing. The stress falls on "cur". In IPA it is /ˈkjʊɹɪŋ/.

What is another word for curing?

Close synonyms include hardening, solidifying, solidification, set. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is curing a common word?

curing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.