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
- 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