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cure-all

[ kyoor-awl ]

noun

  1. a remedy for all diseases, ills, or difficulties; panacea.


cure-all

noun

  1. something reputed to cure all ailments


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cure-all1

First recorded in 1785–95

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Example Sentences

Consuming yagé is believed to be a general cure-all for almost anything: cancer, depression, alcoholism, etc.

It would be such a relief if we had a cultural cure-all for these sources of anger and fury.

Education has long seemed like the uncontroversial cure-all for these sorts of issues.

But Islamic law has not proven to be the cure-all northerners hoped it would be.

As it happens, I know of a cure that comes pretty near being that impossible thing, a "cure-all."

So every day the old doctor and I hunted the cure-all plant among the mountains and valleys of the Blue Ridge.

He knew all about this liberty, equality and fraternity business, from across the Vosges—and he despised the cure-all.

If the new policy has been a farce politically and socially, how much more has it failed as an economic cure-all!

She was not big enough nor small enough to have a patent cure-all solution ready.

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