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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, curing 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
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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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cure
v.
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Object
- ailment: They promoted the use of herbs to cure ailments and used the power of nature.
Preposition: for
- baldness: They're a bit like cures for baldness: you are unlikely to see too much benefit for your money.
Adjective modifier
- miraculous: A doctor's wife is determined to discover how two medicine men are effecting miraculous cures.
Noun used with modifier
- hangover: The draft is no doubt a pick-me-up or hangover cure.
The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historical usage. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com.
The cure of the id by the odd.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope for a cure.
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.
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