cure 
cure (kyo̵or)
noun
- a healing or being healed; restoration to health or a sound condition
- a medicine or treatment for restoring health; remedy
- a system, method, or course of treating a disease, ailment, etc.
- spiritual charge of persons in a particular district; care of souls
- the work or position of a curate; curacy
- a process for curing meat, fish, tobacco, etc.
Etymology: OFr < L cura, care, concern, trouble < OL *coira < IE base *kois-, be concerned
transitive verb cured, cur′·ing
- to restore to health or a sound condition; make well; heal
- to get rid of or counteract (an ailment, evil, bad habit, etc.)
- to get rid of a harmful or undesirable condition in: (with of) cured him of lying
- to preserve (meat, fish, etc.), as by salting or smoking
- to process (tobacco, leather, etc.), as by drying or aging
- to encourage the proper hardening of (concrete or mortar) by regulating humidity and temperature
intransitive verb
- to bring about a cure
- to undergo curing, preserving, or processing tobacco cures in the sun
cure
v.
Object
- ham: There was always a basket of oatcakes hanging from the kitchen ceiling and several home cured hams.
- bacon: Our Breakfasts will suit those with a hearty appetite boasting local championship sausage and locally cured bacon.
- ailment: They promoted the use of herbs to cure ailments and used the power of nature.
- wart: The fresh, crushed leaves are useful in healing minor wounds and curing warts.
- malady: With your malady cured you'll live anew, nor will a deer be more active.
- meat: Products: kitchen doors, olive oil, cured meats, wine.
Preposition: for
- baldness: They're a bit like cures for baldness: you are unlikely to see too much benefit for your money.
- deafness: Vivienne Michael said: Deafness Research UK is supporting research which we believe will result in medical cures for deafness.
- arthritis: At the moment, there is no cure for arthritis ( except gout ).
- ailment: Modern medicine still has no cure for these ailments.
- diabetes: How will your party increase the amount of money dedicated to finding a cure for diabetes?
Adjective modifier
- miraculous: A doctor's wife is determined to discover how two medicine men are effecting miraculous cures.
- mycological: The primary outcome measured in all trials was mycological cure.
- known: In 1905 the first William was infected with the virus for which there is no known cure.
Noun used with modifier
- hangover: The draft is no doubt a pick-me-up or hangover cure.
- miracle: Unfortunately, there are no miracle cures or easy answers.
- 'miracle: Hysteria is the condition responsible for those cases which are often reported in the newspapers as 'miracle cures ' .
- feng: I used to have my own flat and applied feng shui cures to the relevant areas in my flat.
- shui: I used to have my own flat and applied feng shui cures to the relevant areas in my flat.
- acne: Millions of acne problems, billions of acne cures.
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
To be no more; sad cure; for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?
How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals, with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or frowst with a book by the fire; But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, And dig till you gently perspire.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
The cure of the id by the odd.
As if you would call a physician, that is thought good for the cure of the disease you complain of but is Bacon unacquainted with your body, and therefore may put you in the way for a present cure but overthroweth your health in some other kind; and so cure the disease and kill the patient.
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
But love's a malady without a cure.
L'amour qui na|"t subitement est le plus long a' gue¤ rir. Love which strikes suddenly takes the longest to cure.
Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness, That is not kept in chains, and close-pent rooms, But in fair lightsome lodgings, and isgirt With the wild noise of prattling visitants, Which makes it lunatic beyond all cure.
Physicians of the utmost fame Were called at once, but when they came Theyanswered, as they took their fees, 'There is no cure for this disease.'
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope for a cure.
There is nothing in Socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
If the changes we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure.
Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself inThee, Let the water and the blood, From thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.
Fishing is undoubtedly a form of madness but, happily for the once-bitten, there is no cure.
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.
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