curing

English

Etymology 1

From cure +‎ -ing.

Verb

curing

1. present participle and gerund of cure

Etymology 2

From Middle English curyng, curinge, equivalent to cure +‎ -ing.

Noun

curing (plural curings)

1. The act by which something is cured.
   • 1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183:

     As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.