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cure (kyo̵or)

noun

  1. a healing or being healed; restoration to health or a sound condition
  2. a medicine or treatment for restoring health; remedy
  3. a system, method, or course of treating a disease, ailment, etc.
  4. spiritual charge of persons in a particular district; care of souls
  5. the work or position of a curate; curacy
  6. 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

  1. to restore to health or a sound condition; make well; heal
  2. to get rid of or counteract (an ailment, evil, bad habit, etc.)
  3. 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
  5. to encourage the proper hardening of (concrete or mortar) by regulating humidity and temperature

intransitive verb

  1. to bring about a cure
  2. to undergo curing, preserving, or processing tobacco cures in the sun

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cure Synonyms

cure

n.

restorative, remedy, healing agent, antidote; see medicine 2, remedy 2.


cure

v.

  1. To heal

    make well, make healthy, restore, make whole; see heal 1.

  2. To preserve

    keep, salt, smoke, pickle; see preserve 3.

  3. To correct

    remedy, rectify, counteract, rid; see correct 1, remedy. See syn. study at heal.


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cure Usage Examples

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.
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cure quotes

The cure of the id by the odd.

-Anonymous

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope for a cure.

-Austen,Jane

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.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

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