Curando

Curando is the gerund form of the Portuguese verb curar, meaning to cure or to heal. It expresses ongoing or progressive action and is used with auxiliary verbs such as estar, andar, or ficar to indicate a continuing process, as in Ele está curando a ferida (He is healing the wound). It can also appear in contexts describing habitual or repeated activity, though this is less common in formal writing.

The base verb curar comes from Latin curāre, meaning to take care of, care for, or heal. The noun cura denotes care, remedy, or cure; related adjectives include curativo (curative) and the past participle curado (cured). The form curando shares cognates in other Romance languages, such as Spanish curando and Italian curando, all with the general sense of ongoing healing.

In practice, curando is most typical in medical or everyday descriptions of ongoing treatment, wound care, or metaphorical healing processes. In formal writing, some style guides discourage excessive use of the gerund (gerúndio) and favor more direct tenses or constructions instead of extended gerund phrases.

See also: cura, curar, curativo. Examples: Ela está curando a ferida com cuidado. The term can appear in figurative senses, as in discussions of emotional or social healing, though such uses are context-dependent.