cure

IPA: kjˈʊr

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.

(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.

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's made it part of what he calls a cure for homosexuality.
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.
We rarely use the word cure in metastatic disease, Canetta said, but some patients getting Yervoy have now been followed for four years or more.
Komen, though, is certainly a job creator, since it does employ a lot of lawyers suing people who want to use the word "cure" in their fundraising.
"If we are ever going to use the word 'cure', the immune system is going to have to come into play," says Stephen Hodi , director of the melanoma center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
While I agree with freedom of speech even for the speech I hate, the cure is as Jefferson suggested: To paste the fat a$$es of the abusers with scorn and calumny so that they will never be allowed to walk in polite (and sane) society again.