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English

Etymology

curare +? -iform

Adjective

curariform (comparative more curariform, superlative most curariform)

1. Resembling curare.
   • 1962, New and nonofficial drugs

     With extremely large doses, the action of edrophonium becomes curariform and capable of potentiating rather than antagonizing the peripheral paralytic effect of curare.

English

Alternative forms

• curari, urare, urari, woorari, wurali

Etymology

From Cariban Mawa Cure, referring the Mawa vine, or Strychnos toxifera.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kj?????.?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kj?????.i/

Noun

curare (uncountable)

1. a plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content
2. other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae
3. a substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery

Related terms

Translations

References

• “curare”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “curare”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Carreu, Ur-race, ur-race

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish curare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky?ra?.r?/, /ku?ra?.r?/
• Hyphenation: cu?ra?re

Noun

curare n (uncountable)

1. curare

Italian

Etymology

From Latin c?r?re, present active infinitive of c?r?.

Verb

curàre (first-person singular present cùro, first-person singular past historic curài, past participle curàto, auxiliary avere)

1. (transitive, medicine) to treat, cure (a patient, disease, etc.)

   Synonyms: medicare, fasciare, sanare, guarire

2. (transitive) to look after

   Synonyms: badare, guardare, provvedere a, governare, seguire

3. (transitive) to value; to take care of

4. (transitive) (with [che + subj.] or [di + inf.]) to do in such a way (that); to make it so (that)

   Synonym: adoperarsi

Conjugation

Related terms

Anagrams

• curerà

Latin

Verb

c?r?re

1. present active infinitive of c?r?
2. second-person singular present passive imperative of c?r?
3. second-person singular present passive indicative of c?r?

Portuguese

Noun

curare m (uncountable)

1. curare (a substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku??a?e/, [ku??a.?e]

Noun

curare m (plural curares)

1. curare

Verb

curare

1. First-person singular (yo) future subjunctive form of curar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) future subjunctive form of curar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) future subjunctive form of curar.

Swedish

Noun

curare n

1. curare

Declension