Cured Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "SMOKED" which means:

adjective satellite
• • (used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke
adjective
• • Of food, preserved by treatment with smoke.
• • Of glass, tinted.
verb
• • To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
• • To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
• • To give off smoke.
• • To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
• • To dry or medicate by smoke.
• • To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
• • To make unclear or blurry.
• • (chiefly as present participle) to perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
• • To beat someone at something.
• • To kill, especially with a gun.
• • To thrash; to beat.
• • To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
• • To ridicule to the face; to mock.
• • To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
• • To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
• • To suffer severely; to be punished.
• • To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
• • To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.

An example sentence would be:

• • "He smoked a cigarette after dinner."
• • "She smoked a pipe while reading a book."

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