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noun
1.
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.
EXPANDthe 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.
COLLAPSEthe 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.
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Cureless
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
verb (used without object)
13.
to effect a cure.
14.
to become cured.
Origin:
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
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
Related forms
cure·less, adjective
cure·less·ly, adverb
cur·er, noun
half-cured, adjective
o·ver·cured, adjective
EXPANDSynonyms
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 especially to making wrongs right: to remedy a mistake.
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 especially to making wrongs right: to remedy a mistake.
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Word Origin & History
cure
c.1300, from L. cura "care, concern, trouble," from PIE base *kois- "be concerned." In reference to fish, pork, etc., first recorded 1743. Related: Curable (late 14c.). Cure-all in general sense is from 1870; as a name of various plants, it is attested from 1793.
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Medical Dictionary
cure (ky&oobreve;r)
n.
Restoration of health; recovery from disease.
A method or course of treatment used to restore health.
An agent that restores health; a remedy.
To restore a person to health.
To effect a recovery from a disease or disorder.
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