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cured cancer

cured cancer is the simple past and past participle of cure cancer.

Meaning of cure cancer

Verb

cure cancer (third-person singular simple present cures cancer, present participle curing cancer, simple past and past participle cured cancer)

  1. (figuratively, informal) To achieve an impossible goal or to attain the ultimate triumph over a seemingly insurmountable, multifaceted, and deeply entrenched problem.

Questions about cured cancer

What is cured cancer the simple past and past participle of?
Cured cancer is the simple past and past participle of cure cancer.

Words near cured cancer in the dictionary

  1. cureall
  2. curealls
  3. curebie
  4. curebies
  5. cured
  6. cured cancer
  7. cured down
  8. cured up
  9. Curehead
  10. Cureheads
  11. cureless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cured cancer (page history and authors); cure cancer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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