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guaribile

curable

adjective gwah-REE-bee-leh Rare

Usage Note

Guaribile describes a disease or injury that can be cured or healed. Its antonym is incurabile ('incurable'). It is a formal, medical register word. The root verb is guarire ('to heal, to recover'), which uses essere as auxiliary: è guarito ('he recovered').

Examples

"Fortunatamente la malattia è completamente guaribile."

Natural Translation

Fortunately, the illness is completely curable.

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