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cure
1[ kyoor ]
noun
- a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- a method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease.
Synonyms: antidote, specific, restorative, remedy
- successful remedial treatment; restoration to health.
- a means of correcting or relieving anything that is troublesome or detrimental:
The administration is seeking a cure for inflation.
- the act or a method of preserving meat, fish, etc., by smoking, salting, or the like.
- spiritual or religious charge of the people in a certain district.
- the office or district of a curate or parish priest.
verb (used with object)
- to restore to health.
- to relieve or rid of something detrimental, such as an illness or a bad habit.
- to correct (a document, especially a mail-in ballot) in order to make it valid:
If the voter’s signature is missing, the county board sends them a certification form allowing the voter to cure the ballot so it can be counted.
- to prepare (meat, fish, etc.) for preservation by salting, drying, etc.
- to promote hardening of (fresh concrete or mortar), as by keeping it damp.
- to process (rubber, tobacco, etc.) as by fermentation or aging.
verb (used without object)
- to effect a cure.
- to become cured.
curé
2[ kyoo-rey, kyoor-ey; French ky-rey ]
noun
- (in France) a parish priest.
curé
1/ ˈkjʊəreɪ /
noun
- a parish priest in France
cure
2/ kjʊə /
verb
- tr to get rid of (an ailment, fault, or problem); heal
- tr to restore to health or good condition
- intr to bring about a cure
- tr to preserve (meat, fish, etc) by salting, smoking, etc
- tr
- to treat or finish (a substance) by chemical or physical means
- to vulcanize (rubber)
- to allow (a polymer) to set often using heat or pressure
- tr to assist the hardening of (concrete, mortar, etc) by keeping it moist
noun
- a return to health, esp after specific treatment
- any course of medical therapy, esp one proved effective in combating a disease
- a means of restoring health or improving a condition, situation, etc
- the spiritual and pastoral charge of a parish
the cure of souls
- a process or method of preserving meat, fish, etc, by salting, pickling, or smoking
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Derived Forms
- ˈcurer, noun
- ˈcureless, adjective
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Other Words From
- cure·less adjective
- cure·less·ly adverb
- cur·er noun
- half-cured adjective
- o·ver·cured adjective
- sem·i·cured adjective
- un·cured adjective
- well-cured adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cure1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cure1
Origin of cure2
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Idioms and Phrases
see kill or cure ; ounce of prevention (is worth a pound of cure) ; sure cure .Discover More
Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
Upon our return to dinner, we found the Curé of the village in rapid conversation with Madame.
It is one of those preserved by Father Lizana, curé of Itzamal, and of which he gives the original.
At the same time an Indian dwarf in Lecour's service moved up silently and took the reins out of the Curé's hands.
Flattery from his Curé weighed more with Lecour père than bushels of argument.
"You see what comes of talking without the advice of counsel," remarked Maître Curé in funereal tones.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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