past cure


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past cure

Incurable or hopeless, especially of an illness that has a grim prognosis. We need to go see your grandmother tonight—the doctors believe that her condition is past cure.
See also: cure, past
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Elizabeth Pochoda, our departing literary editor, once wrote that "the craft of book reviewing scarcely rates much serious conversation, as if it were by now an affliction past cure or notice.
'Stigmatic harm.' (Supreme Court's nullification of Richmond, Virginia, minority set-aside program) (editorial)
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