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  • noun Alternative form of water cure.

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Examples

  • And again this is waterboarding not the water-cure.

    Mullah Abdul Ghani Barader Interrogation - So, They Used Rendition on Barader? | RedState 2010

  • In this new setting, coupled with hydrotherapy or "water-cure" treatments, he recovered his health.

    In a Fury Over Freedom John Stauffer 2010

  • In this new setting, coupled with hydrotherapy or "water-cure" treatments, he recovered his health.

    In a Fury Over Freedom John Stauffer 2010

  • He became a true believer in the power of water to cleanse body and soul, started a water-cure business, and cultivated an "atmosphere of racial and gender harmony."

    In a Fury Over Freedom John Stauffer 2010

  • In this new setting, coupled with hydrotherapy or "water-cure" treatments, he recovered his health.

    In a Fury Over Freedom John Stauffer 2010

  • He became a true believer in the power of water to cleanse body and soul, started a water-cure business, and cultivated an "atmosphere of racial and gender harmony."

    In a Fury Over Freedom John Stauffer 2010

  • He became a true believer in the power of water to cleanse body and soul, started a water-cure business, and cultivated an "atmosphere of racial and gender harmony."

    In a Fury Over Freedom John Stauffer 2010

  • And even now we are obliged to veil it under the garb of charlatanry-to call it a “milk-cure” in Switzerland, a “water-cure” in Silesia, a

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • Father Agustin Piña, the parish priest of Molo and the active adviser in the operations around Pavía -- Jaro district, was caught by the Americans and died of "water-cure."

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • The "water-cure" operation, in vogue for awhile all over the Islands, proved fatal in many cases.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

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