cure

[ kyoor ]

/ kyʊər /

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noun

a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.

a method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease.

successful remedial treatment; restoration to health.

a means of correcting or relieving anything that is troublesome or detrimental: to seek a cure for inflation.

the act or a method of preserving meat, fish, etc., by smoking, salting, or the like.

spiritual or religious charge of the people in a certain district.

the office or district of a curate or parish priest.

verb (used with object), cured, cur·ing.

to restore to health.

to relieve or rid of something detrimental, as an illness or a bad habit.

to prepare (meat, fish, etc.) for preservation by salting, drying, etc.

to promote hardening of (fresh concrete or mortar), as by keeping it damp.

to process (rubber, tobacco, etc.) as by fermentation or aging.

verb (used without object), cured, cur·ing.

to effect a cure.

to become cured.

Origin of cure

1250–1300; (v.) Middle English curen < Middle French curer < Latin cūrāre to take care of, derivative of cūra care; (noun) Middle English < Old French cure < Latin cūra

SYNONYMS FOR cure

2 remedy, restorative, specific, antidote.

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synonym study for cure

9. Cure, heal, remedy imply making well, whole, or right. Cure is applied to the eradication of disease or sickness: to cure a headache. Heal suggests the making whole of wounds, sores, etc.: to heal a burn. Remedy applies especially to making wrongs right: to remedy a mistake.

OTHER WORDS FROM cure

cure·less, adjective cure·less·ly, adverb cur·er, noun half-cured, adjective

o·ver·cured, adjective sem·i·cured, adjective un·cured, adjective well-cured, adjective

Words nearby cure

curcumin, curd, curd cheese, curdle, curdy, cure, cure-all, curet, curettage, curette, curettement

Example sentences from the Web for curing

By the late 1600s, chemists and herbalists had begun to concoct their own scientific mixtures for curing the hangover.

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Instead of curing the disease, to remove those symptoms by which alone its nature can be known!

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A miracle of this sort interests me; curing cancer, less so.

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Critics of Functional Medicine claim that they too are interested in curing, not palliating disease.

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Fetch me then three kinds of water, the Life-giving, the Curing, and the Strengthening.

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The small planter does the curing upon mats of sticks, boards, palm or banana leaves raised somewhat above the ground.

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They had now commenced drawing from the windrows where they had been longest exposed to the curing process of the sun.

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Why, some of our best doctors never think of curing a man until they get him mad a few times.

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According to this, the time for curing the manure extends over a period of about a week, or five to ten days.

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British Dictionary definitions for curing (1 of 2)

cure

/ (kjʊə) /

verb

(tr) to get rid of (an ailment, fault, or problem); heal

(tr) to restore to health or good condition

(intr) to bring about a cure

(tr) to preserve (meat, fish, etc) by salting, smoking, etc

(tr)

to treat or finish (a substance) by chemical or physical means
to vulcanize (rubber)
to allow (a polymer) to set often using heat or pressure

(tr) to assist the hardening of (concrete, mortar, etc) by keeping it moist

noun

a return to health, esp after specific treatment

any course of medical therapy, esp one proved effective in combating a disease

a means of restoring health or improving a condition, situation, etc

the spiritual and pastoral charge of a parish the cure of souls

a process or method of preserving meat, fish, etc, by salting, pickling, or smoking

Derived forms of cure

cureless, adjective curer, noun

Word Origin for cure

(n) C13: from Old French, from Latin cūra care; in ecclesiastical sense, from Medieval Latin cūra spiritual charge; (vb) C14: from Old French curer, from Latin cūrāre to attend to, heal, from cūra care

British Dictionary definitions for curing (2 of 2)

curé

/ (ˈkjʊəreɪ) /

noun

a parish priest in France

Word Origin for curé

French, from Medieval Latin cūrātus; see curate 1

Medical definitions for curing

cure

[ kyur ]

n.

Restoration of health; recovery from disease.

A method or course of treatment used to restore health.

An agent that restores health; a remedy.

v.

To restore a person to health.

To effect a recovery from a disease or disorder.

Idioms and Phrases with curing

cure

see kill or cure; ounce of prevention (is worth a pound of cure); sure cure.

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verb (used without object), cured, cur·ing.

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verb (used with object), cured, cur·ing.

verb (used without object), cured, cur·ing.

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synonym study for cure

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