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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
curable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Cervical cancer is usually curable if it is detected early enough.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In Leapor's view, the problems of women in relation to marriage are not immediately curable.
▪ It is controllable but not curable.
▪ Most sexually transmitted diseases are curable.
▪ Most skin cancers are completely curable, but some can be fatal.
▪ Such small tumors are often caught at an earlier, more curable stage.
▪ The Pap smear means the cancer can be treated at its earliest, and most curable, stages.
▪ This is a pity as it is usually curable.
▪ Unlike melanomas, they are slow growing and non-invasive and are readily curable if treated early.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curable

Curable \Cur"a*ble\ (k?r"?-b'l), a. [Cf. F. curable. See Cure, v. t.] Capable of being cured; admitting remedy. ``Curable diseases.''
--Harvey. -- Cur"a*ble*ness, n. -- Cur`a*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
curable

late 14c., from cure (v.) + -able; or from Old French curable (13c.) and directly from Late Latin curabilis, from Latin curare.

Wiktionary
curable

a. Capable of being cured.

WordNet
curable

  1. adj. being such that curing or healing is possible; "curable diseases" [ant: incurable]

  2. able to be hardened by some additive or other agent

Usage examples of "curable".

Except in its milder forms, insanity resulting from masturbation and sexual excesses, is rarely curable.

That fifty years hence, these scourges of humanity will be curable by the administration of any remedy, to be hereafter discovered by experimentation on animals,--in the Rockefeller Institute, for instance,--I have not the slightest faith.

The first thing that Nancy said was that metastatic breast cancer is not considered a curable disease.

That fifty years hence, these scourges of humanity will be curable by the administration of any remedy, to be hereafter discovered by experimentation on animals,--in the Rockefeller Institute, for instance,--I have not the slightest faith.

Basal and squamous cell are very curable cancers that are usually treated by removal of the cancerous growth.

Institution, they will meet with patients cured and others on the way to recovery from the same difficulty they have themselves--no matter what it is, if curable at all.

He mentioned frivolous treatises that considered it a curable disease responsive to various prescriptions: liverwort, cinnabar, musk, silver mercury, anagallis flore purpureo.

Idiots like him had cut costs by shortchanging the colony on Bremer until the colonists had grown tired of watching each other and their children die of curable diseases and starvation, and had rebelled.

The husband of the thirty-year-old cancer victim, though present during the assisted suicide, subsequently filed a civil suit seeking damages from Maddoc when an autopsy discovered that his wife had been misdiagnosed, that she didn't have cancer, and that her condition had been curable.

Scrofula, a kind of tuberculosis, was in England called the 'King's evil', and was supposedly curable only by the King's touch.