cure

The definition of a cure is a remedy or something that will bring back health.

(noun)

To cure is to restore health, to heal, or to preserve meat, or to process tobacco.

(verb)

See cure in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Origin: OFr < L cura, care, concern, trouble < OL *coira < IE base *kois-, be concerned

transitive verb cured, curing

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
1. to preserve (meat, fish, etc.), as by salting or smoking
2. 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

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See cure in American Heritage Dictionary 4

cure

noun

Restoration of health; recovery from disease.
A method or course of medical treatment used to restore health.
An agent, such as a drug, that restores health; a remedy.
Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation: The cats proved to be a good cure for our mouse problem.
Ecclesiastical Spiritual charge or care, as of a priest for a congregation.
The office or duties of a curate.
The act or process of preserving a product.

verb cured cured, curing cur·ing, cures

verb, transitive

To restore to health.
To effect a recovery from: cure a cold.
To remove or remedy (something harmful or disturbing): cure an evil.
To preserve (meat, for example), as by salting, smoking, or aging.
To prepare, preserve, or finish (a substance) by a chemical or physical process.
To vulcanize (rubber).

verb, intransitive

To effect a cure or recovery: a medicine that cures.
To be prepared, preserved, or finished by a chemical or physical process: hams curing in the smokehouse.

Origin: Middle English, from Old French, medical treatment, from Latin cūra, from Archaic Latin coisa-.

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