cure
Meanings
Plural: cures
Noun
- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
- A method, device or medication that restores good health.
- An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
- A solution to a problem.
- A process of preservation, as by smoking.
- Cured fish.
- A process of solidification or gelling.
- A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
- Care, heed, or attention.
- Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
- That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
- An eccentric person.
Verb
- provide a cure for, make healthy again
- "The treatment cured the boy's acne"
- prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve
- "cure meats"
- "cure pickles"
- "cure hay"
- make (substances) hard and improve their usability
- "cure resin"
- "cure cement"
- "cure soap"
- be or become preserved
- "the apricots cure in the sun"
- To restore to health.
- To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
- To cause to be rid of (a defect).
- To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
- To preserve (food), typically by salting.
- To bring about a cure of any kind.
- To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
- To solidify or gel.
- To become healed.
- To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English cure, borrowed from Old French cure (“care, cure, healing, cure of souls”), from Latin cura (“care, medical attendance, cure”). Displaced native Old English hǣlu, but survived as heal.
Synonyms
bring around, curacy, curative, heal, mithridate, remedy, therapeutic, treacle
Scrabble Score: 6
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