cure
IPA: kjˈʊr
noun
- 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.
- (figurative) A solution to a problem.
- A process of preservation, as by smoking.
- Cured fish.
- A process of solidification or gelling.
- (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
- (obsolete) 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.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To restore to health.
- (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
- (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
- (transitive) To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
- To preserve (food), typically by salting.
- (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
- (intransitive) To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
- (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
- (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
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Examples of "cure" in Sentences
- As for cure for this distemper, there is none.
- The plant extract is used to cure some diseases.
- The doctor can both heal wounds and cure diseases.
- She took the medicine to cure small pox and cholera.
- Repeated courses of chemotherapy failed to cure the disease.
- He made a cure for the disease which helped the mollification of pain.
- The medicine is the cure and the disease at the same time in such patients.
- Bee venom is used for the preparation of medicines for the cure of arthritis.
- What remedy does the parliament provides to cure the disease of the mischief.