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--v. 2 check, restrain, bridle, control, contain, repress,
subdue, suppress: Try to curb your exuberance.
cure n. 1 course of treatment, therapy, remedy, medication,
medicament, medicine, drug, prescription; cure-all, nostrum,
panacea: The doctor said there was no cure for her illness.
--v. 2 heal, mend, restore to health or working order, remedy,
rectify, correct, repair, fix: What can't be cured must be
endured. 3 smoke, pickle, dry, salt, preserve, corn, marinate:
That cured ox tongue is simply delicious!
curiosity n. 1 inquisitiveness, interest: His insatiable curiosity next
led him to study astronomy. 2 snooping, prying, peeping,
intrusiveness, meddlesomeness, interference, Colloq nosiness,
Nosy Parkerism: Curiosity killed the cat. 3 curio, oddity,
rarity, conversation piece, objet de virtu or vertu, objet
d'art, found object; bric-…-brac or bric-a-brac, knick-knack,
bauble, trinket, gewgaw: The shop sells curiosities, like
goblets made from ostrich eggs. In those days, every house had
a curiosity cabinet.
curious adj. 1 inquisitive, inquiring, interested: I am curious to
know what you were doing in there all night. 2 snooping,
prying, intrusive, meddlesome, interfering, Colloq nosy: Our
neighbours are entirely too curious about our activities. 3
odd, peculiar, eccentric, strange, outr‚, queer, unusual,
outrageous, offbeat, weird, bizarre, unconventional, freakish,
exotic, singular, out of the ordinary, extraordinary, erratic,
pixilated, quaint, outlandish, grotesque, aberrant, abnormal,
singular, irregular, deviant, deviate, Colloq kinky, nuts,
nutty; Slang Brit barmy: How do you explain Frieda's curious
behaviour?
current adj. 1 contemporary, ongoing, present, contemporaneous,
simultaneous, coeval: The current issue of the magazine came
out last week. 2 prevalent, prevailing, common, popular,
accepted, known, widespread, reported, in circulation, going
round or around, bruited about, widely known, in the air,
present-day: The current theories reject those of a decade ago.
3 fashionable, stylish, … la mode, modish, in vogue, latest, up
to date, Colloq trendy: The current trend is towards shorter