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Incurable

Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.

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Inalterable 84% connected

Not alterable; incapable of being altered or changed; unalterable.

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Inalterable 84% connected

Not alterable; incapable of being altered or changed; unalterable.

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Sufferer 76% connected

One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are suffer…

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Incurability 74% connected

The state of being uncurable; irremediableness.

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Incurability 74% connected

The state of being uncurable; irremediableness.

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Incurableness 74% connected

The state of being incurable; incurability.

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Incurableness 74% connected

The state of being incurable; incurability.

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Curable 94% connected

Capable of being cured; admitting remedy.

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Curable 94% connected

Capable of being cured; admitting remedy.

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Ability noun · 78% connection

The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill o…

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Able superl. · 78% connection

Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications…

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Art noun · 78% connection

The systematic application of knowledge or skill in effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or business requiring such knowled…

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Capable adjective · 78% connection

Possessing adequate power; qualified; able; fully competent; as, a capable instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of nice investi…

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Craft noun · 78% connection

Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by…

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Dunfish noun · 78% connection

Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.

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Efficacy noun · 78% connection

Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in…

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Epidemic adjective · 78% connection

(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a popu…

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Exceed verb · 78% connection

To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sens…

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Finnan haddie unknown · 78% connection

Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fin"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock.

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Fit noun · 78% connection

A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousn…

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Flitch noun · 78% connection

The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.

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Ham noun · 78% connection

The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking.

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Hay noun · 78% connection

Grass cut and cured for fodder.

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Hermetical adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the system which explains the causes of diseases and the operations of medicine on the principles of the hermetic…

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Homeopathy noun · 78% connection

The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies whi…

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Horse power unknown · 78% connection

A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines…

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Judge verb · 78% connection

One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything;…

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