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water cure

noun

Etymology

From water + cure.

  1. derived from cura
  2. derived from cure — “care, cure, healing, cure of souls”
  3. inherited from cure
  4. compounded as water cure — “water + cure”

Definitions

  1. Treatment of pain and illness using water, particularly bathing.

  2. A form of torture in which the victim is forced to drink large quantities of water in a…

    A form of torture in which the victim is forced to drink large quantities of water in a short time.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for water cure. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA