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cure

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noun

a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.

a method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease.

successful remedial treatment; restoration to health.

a means of correcting or relieving anything that is troublesome or detrimental: to seek a cure for inflation.

the act or a method of preserving meat, fish, etc., by smoking, salting, or the like.

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spiritual or religious charge of the people in a certain district.

the office or district of a curate or parish priest.

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verb (used with object)

to restore to health.

to relieve or rid of something detrimental, as an illness or a bad habit.

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to prepare (meat, fish, etc.) for preservation by salting, drying, etc.

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to promote hardening of (fresh concrete or mortar), as by keeping it damp.

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to process (rubber, tobacco, etc.) as by fermentation or aging.

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to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.

to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly.

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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

Related forms

cure·less, adjective

cure·less·ly, adverb

cur·er, noun

half-cured, adjective

o·ver·cured, adjective

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sem·i·cured, adjective

un·cured, adjective

well-cured, adjective

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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 especially to making wrongs right: to remedy a mistake.

Example Sentences

Hunger is an unforgivable disease because it is the easiest one to cure.

The cure for cancer might be found on your home computer.

Unfortunately, the cure was worse than the condition.

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Hunger is an unforgivable disease because it is the easiest one to cure.

The cure for cancer might be found on your home computer.

Unfortunately, the cure was worse than the condition.

It is also good to help find a cure for cancer and other diseases.

If you ever find a cure or anything that helps please let me know.

Science isn't going to cure cancer by next week or clean up the gulf oil spill overnight.

We're crossing our fingers that this will be miracle cure while also looking for a less expensive option.

We have been to the moon and split the atom, but a true cure or foolproof preventative measure for the hangover remains elusive.

They include drugs that are the mainstay of treatment regimens used to cure leukemia, lymphoma and testicular cancer.

Indeed, he and his wife had impeccable company in their faith in education as diagnosis and cure.

Understanding those, they felt sure, would result in a cure.

Forty years later, there seems to be no cure in sight.

Yet vexingly, today's treatments cannot actually cure the infection.

Countless lab hours are spent in search for a medical cure that is still yet unknown.

Cure the shrimp briefly in salt and sugar to tenderize and flavorize, then transport them on skewers in their marinade.

Current therapies help slow the disease by quieting the immune system attack on nerves, but no cure is known.

If the tumor cannot be completely removed, a cure is generally not possible.

The cure for violence is better communication, perhaps better education.

Many governments have found that cure is far more laborious and expensive than prevention.

After participating in successful drug trials, he hopes he will live to see a cure.

I've seen claims that elimination of grains will magically cure pretty much everything.

McDowell, however, thought there was a chance that an operation could result in a complete cure.

Scientists cure diabetes in rats and mice using gene therapy.

Scientists still haven't discovered a cure for the common cold, but researchers now say zinc may be the next best thing.

The cyclists plan to raise money along the way for research that could lead to a cure.

Eyeballs rolled into pills are believed to cure epilepsy.

It's possible that a cancer cure awaits discovery in a rain forest plant.

Recent research finds that taking a hot bath can cure loneliness.

But even then this smoking vaccine won't be a one-and-done affair, or a lifelong cure.

Since none of those treatments can cure brain cancer, the senator may want to try some promising new medications.

Letter-writing campaigns may ease consciences, but they won't cure diseases.

Nothing that a few courses of therapy couldn't cure.

After posting complaints on the bulletin board, members scheduled a meeting to find a cure for this chronic pain.

If the past quarter of a century of vaccine research has been bleak, so has the outlook for a cure.

Through the years, everything from headstands to hair grafts has been touted as the cure for baldness.

Many see openness as a cure for corruption and incompetence in public administration.

There is no cure for the syndrome, though scientists are searching for ways to combat the disease.

Moreover, successful treatment with antibiotics effects a cure.

One cure for age discrimination against elderly habitat is to hike through what replaces it after logging.

Not enough cells were transplanted in the trial to cure the patients or even reduce their viral load.

Part of her destructive side was disease and plague, but she was also believed to be able to cure diseases.

For what it's worth you can go have your ginseng drink to cure your diabetes.

The search for a solution for cellulite has women shelling out millions, but rumors of a cure are greatly exaggerated.

Software kingpin says using his product would cure plagiarism blight.

Why cities are the best cure for our planet's growing pains.

Commonly seen on fruit trees, this problem has no chemical cure.

Tiny microbes that live inside termites may one day help cure the world's energy woes, according to scientists.

Snake oil really is a cure for what ails you, if that happens to be arthritis, heart disease or maybe even depression.

Nanotech enthusiasts claim the technology will someday cure disease and eliminate pollution.

Researchers are learning more about chronic dawdlers but see no easy cure for procrastination.

The main thrust of the plan, though, was to improve prevention rather than cure.

Gene therapy is a technique that attempts to cure or treat disease by injecting a healthy gene into the patient.

Another point is that olive oil and lemon juice is also touted as a cure for gall stones.

The cure for the potentially fatal edemas: oxygen and rapid descent.

When a disease is rare, so is the funding for research to treat and cure it.

The gene therapy aims to cure two debilitating diseases caused by a defect in a single gene.

They dream of inventing new transportation systems and medications to cure cancer.

Applying the historic cure for piracy-exemplary violence-would lead to many more dead hostages.

Tuberculin also proved effective, not as a cure for the disease, but as a test for presymptomatic tuberculosis.

But no amount of schedule adjustment seems to reliably cure me of this tendency.

The manipulation of a single gene is enough to cure the wandering eye of a meadow vole.

Cured bacon is going to be somewhat salty, depending on the amount of cure they used.

The main cure for struggling pupils is redoublement, the repeat of a school year.

And an otherwise successful attempt to cure severe combined immunodeficiency disorder-the so-called bubble-baby syndrome.

There is no reliable cure or vaccine for the prevention and treatment of all forms of malaria-particularly the drug-resistant.

Mentor feels it her duty, and that of all right-thinking individuals, to inform and cure or expel sinners.

The difference between a recession and a depression is that a recession will cure itself while a depression won't.

It seems she embarked on biography as a cure for this fear.

Whatever the source of pluripotent cells, applying them to cure disease is still largely uncharted territory.

The cure to a mid-lifer is to let go of the thing that's crushing you.

But many doubt if it can cure the perennial ills of corruption, bad bureaucracy and poor public services.

He began experimenting with city children and found that he could cure their rickets with exposure to sunshine alone.

Freedom of information and an education will cure many ails in this world.

Pangolin blood is thought to cure high blood pressure.

Well, maybe this will cure me of impulse-shopping at a farmer's market.

Demand for the horn has risen along with prices, since it is now also peddled as a cure for cancer.

Find out why cities are the best cure for our planet's growing.

The researchers also want to develop repair methods that can allow service providers to cure infected phones remotely.

The stickleback study does not reveal a cure for such a predisposition to cancer in humans, she said.

Mercury, the common treatment for syphilis for centuries, could not cure it.

The only thing tenure can cure is the stress and pressure of working toward tenure.

She only had to stay on it for five months to cure the disorder.

Dagny, the only cure for that is having a good laugh at their expense after the search is over.

Even lighting on the subject is the basic cure to what you are running into.

In the larger scheme of things, however, cutting expenditures won't cure the university's financial problems.

Some experts have suggested doing the same thing artificially as a modern cure for global warming.

Being on bed rest for a few months is sure to cure of the need the have everything spotless.

Inhibiting or interfering with telomerase in cancer cells may kill the cell and someday cure cancer, scientists say.

Each offers its own distinctive diagnosis of the human problem and its own prescription for a cure.

Ginger has a long history as a cure for upset stomachs.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun, plural cu·rés

[kyoo-reyz, kyoo

r-eyz; Fr. ky-rey] .

(in France) a parish priest.

Origin:
1645–55; < French, Old French; modeled on Medieval Latin cūrātus parish priest; see curate

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World English Dictionary

cure (kjʊə)

—vb
1.	(tr) to get rid of (an ailment, fault, or problem); heal
2.	(tr) to restore to health or good condition
3.	(intr) to bring about a cure
4.	(tr) to preserve (meat, fish, etc) by salting, smoking, etc
5.	(tr)
	a. to treat or finish (a substance) by chemical or physical means
	b. to vulcanize (rubber)
	c. to allow (a polymer) to set often using heat or pressure
6.	(tr) to assist the hardening of (concrete, mortar, etc) by keeping it moist

—n
7.	a return to health, esp after specific treatment
8.	any course of medical therapy, esp one proved effective in combating a disease
9.	a means of restoring health or improving a condition, situation, etc
10.	the spiritual and pastoral charge of a parish: the cure of souls
11.	a process or method of preserving meat, fish, etc, by salting, pickling, or smoking

[(n) C13: from Old French, from Latin cūra care; in ecclesiastical sense, from Medieval Latin cūra spiritual charge; (vb) C14: from Old French curer, from Latin cūrāre to attend to, heal, from cūra care]

'cureless

—*adj*

'curer

—n

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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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cure (ky&oobreve;r)
n.