a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
2.
a method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease.
3.
successful remedial treatment; restoration to health.
4.
a means of correcting or relieving anything that is troublesome or detrimental: to seek a cure for inflation.
5.
the act or a method of preserving meat, fish, etc., by smoking, salting, or the like.
6.
spiritual or religious charge of the people in a certain district.
7.
the office or district of a curate or parish priest.
–verb (used with object)
8.
to restore to health.
9.
to relieve or rid of something detrimental, as an illness or a bad habit.
10.
to prepare (meat, fish, etc.) for preservation by salting, drying, etc.
11.
to promote hardening of (fresh concrete or mortar), as by keeping it damp.
12.
to process (rubber, tobacco, etc.) as by fermentation or aging.
–verb (used without object)
13.
to effect a cure.
14.
to become cured.
[Origin: 1250–1300; (v.) ME curen < MF curer < L cūrāre to take care of, deriv. of cūra care; (n.) ME < OF cure < L cūra]
—Related forms
cureless, adjective
cure·less·ly, adverb
curer, noun
—Synonyms 2. remedy, restorative, specific, antidote. 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 esp. to making wrongs right: to remedy a mistake.
A method or course of medical treatment used to restore health.
An agent, such as a drug, that restores health; a remedy.
Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation: The cats proved to be a good cure for our mouse problem.
Ecclesiastical Spiritual charge or care, as of a priest for a congregation.
The office or duties of a curate.
The act or process of preserving a product.
v.
cured, cur·ing, cures
v.
tr.
To restore to health.
To effect a recovery from: cure a cold.
To remove or remedy (something harmful or disturbing): cure an evil.
To preserve (meat, for example), as by salting, smoking, or aging.
To prepare, preserve, or finish (a substance) by a chemical or physical process.
To vulcanize (rubber).
v.
intr.
To effect a cure or recovery: a medicine that cures.
To be prepared, preserved, or finished by a chemical or physical process: hams curing in the smokehouse.
[Middle English, from Old French, medical treatment, from Latin cūra, from Archaic Latin coisa-.]
cur'er n., cure'less adj.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to set right an undesirable or unhealthy condition: cure an ailing economy; heal a wounded spirit; remedy a structural defect.
c.1300, from L. cura "care, concern, trouble," from PIE base *kois- "be concerned." In reference to fish, pork, etc., first recorded 1743. Cure-all in general sense is from 1870; as a name of various plants, it is attested from 1793.
a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain [syn: remedy]
verb
1.
provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to" [syn: bring around]
2.
prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"
3.
make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"
4.
be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
Ac"cu*rate\, a. [L. accuratus, p. p. and a., fr. accurare to take care of; ad + curare to take care, cura care. See Cure.]1. In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc. 2. Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. [Obs.] Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. --Bacon. Syn: Correct; exact; just; nice; particular. Usage: Accurate, Correct, Exact, Precise. We speak of a thing as correct with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a correct account, a correct likeness, a man of correct deportment. We speak of a thing as accurate with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an accurate statement, an accurate detail of particulars. We speak of a thing as exact with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundance; as, an exact coincidence, the exact truth, an exact likeness. We speak of a thing as precise when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if cut down thereto; as a precise conformity instructions; precisely right; he was very precise in giving his directions.
Cur"a*ble\ (k?r"?-b'l), a. [Cf. F. curable. See Cure, v. t.] Capable of being cured; admitting remedy. "Curable diseases." --Harvey. -- Cur"a*ble*ness, n. -- Cur`a*bly, adv.
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