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Etymology

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From out- +‎ cure.

Verb

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outcure (third-person singular simple present outcures, present participle outcuring, simple past and past participle outcured)

  1. (transitive) To cure more effectively than; to surpass in curing.
    • 1943, Louis Tucker, Clerical Errors, page 218:
      The Christian Scientists were outcured and outtalked; they ceased to make converts in the congregation, []
    • 2015, Ray C. Stedman, God's Loving Word:
      The “placebo effect”—the power of mind over illness—is often so strong that the sugar pills frequently outcure the real drugs!
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