adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
incurable (= not possible to cure )
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The films tells the sad story of a young boy with an incurable illness.
incurable (= that cannot be cured )
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Diseases that were once thought incurable can be treated with antibiotics.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
condition
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This is an incurable condition of the retina which caused almost total blindness.
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Although temporary at first, tinnitus can become a permanent, incurable condition .
disease
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Just inhaling the thick stench down here can fill a person with incurable disease .
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Paycheck dependency is sometimes an incurable disease .
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How would you feel, say, if you had an incurable disease , or a terminal illness?
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In an extreme example, imagine you have been told you have an incurable disease .
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And, tragically, A-T is - as yet - an incurable disease .
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We were informed she has a rare, incurable disease .
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Old age is an incurable disease , see. people think they ought to do something for you.
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The guidelines say that doctors should seriously consider requests from patients with incurable diseases who ask for their lives to be ended.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an incurable disease
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Jane is an incurable gossip.
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My doctor told me that the cancer was incurable .
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Patients with incurable illnesses are brought to the hospice, where they are given the best possible care.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gonorrhea has mutated into deadly and incurable antibiotic-resistant strains.
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He was put down early in 1986 at the age of eighteen when an incurable heart condition was diagnosed.
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Her hair was disorderly, and the color of her skin was bluish black, which is a sign of incurable leprosy.
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In other words, the habit is by no means incurable .
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On the other hand, aphids can infect raspberries with incurable virus diseases, and blackcurrant reversion is spread by big-bud mites.
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Paycheck dependency is sometimes an incurable disease.
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That being the case, Chan is an incurable romantic.
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The cancer is incurable , however, and Tsongas admitted later that he had concealed its recurrence.