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cure

  [kyoor] noun, verb, cured, cur⋅ing.
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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. 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.
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cu⋅ré

  [kyoo-rey, kyoor-ey; Fr. ky-rey]
–noun, plural cu⋅rés  [kyoo-reyz, kyoor-eyz; Fr. ky-rey] .
(in France) a parish priest.
Origin:
1645–55; < F, OF; modeled on ML cūrātus parish priest; see curate
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cure   (kyŏŏr)   
n.  

  1. Restoration of health; recovery from disease.

  2. A method or course of medical treatment used to restore health.

  3. An agent, such as a drug, that restores health; a remedy.

  4. Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation: The cats proved to be a good cure for our mouse problem.

  5. Ecclesiastical Spiritual charge or care, as of a priest for a congregation.

  6. The office or duties of a curate.

  7. The act or process of preserving a product.

v.   cured, cur·ing, cures

v.   tr.

  1. To restore to health.

  2. To effect a recovery from: cure a cold.

  3. To remove or remedy (something harmful or disturbing): cure an evil.

  4. To preserve (meat, for example), as by salting, smoking, or aging.

  5. To prepare, preserve, or finish (a substance) by a chemical or physical process.

  6. To vulcanize (rubber).

v.   intr.

  1. To effect a cure or recovery: a medicine that cures.

  2. 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.
cu·ré   (kyŏŏ-rā', kyŏŏr'ā')   
n.  A parish priest.

[French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin cūrātus; see curate1.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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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. Cure-all in general sense is from 1870; as a name of various plants, it is attested from 1793.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: cure
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: cured; cur·ing
transitive verb : to deal with in a way that eliminates or corrects: as a : to use judicial procedures to undo (damage to a litigant's case caused by procedural errors made during a trial) cured harm caused by trial court's error in impermissibly allowing…statements of government witness —National Law Journal>; also : to judicially correct or negate (procedural errors) <cure a defect in the pleadings> b : to correct or make acceptable (a defective performance or delivery under a contract) cured —J. J. White and Railroad S. Summers> c : to negate (a default by a debtor in bankruptcy) by restoring the debtor and creditor to their positions before the default intransitive verb : to eliminate or correct a defect; especially : to correct or make acceptable a defective performance or delivery under a contract cure and may then within the contract time make a conforming delivery —Uniform Commercial Code> —cur·able adjective —cur·abil·i·ty noun —cure noun
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1cure
Pronunciation: 'kyu(&)r
Function: noun
1 : recovery from a disease cure was complete>; also : remission of signs or symptoms of a disease especially during a prolonged period of observation cure> <5-year cure of cancer> —compare ARREST
2 : a drug, treatment, regimen, or other agency that cures a disease cure>cure for malaria>
3 : a course or period of treatment; especially : one designed to interrupt an addiction or compulsive habit or toimprove general health cure for alcoholism> cure at a spa>
4 : SPA
5 maritime law : the medical care awarded a person in the merchant marine who is injured or taken sick in the course of duty

Main Entry: 2cure
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: cured; cur·ing
transitive senses
: HEAL: a : to restore to health, soundness, or normality <curing her patients rapidly by new procedures>cured of lisping> b : to bring about recovery from cure a clean wound> cure many formerly intractableinfections> cure intransitive senses
1 : to effect a cure cures more often than it kills>
2 : to take acure (as in a sanatorium or at a spa) —cur·er noun
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Medical Dictionary

cure (ky&oobreve;r)
n.

  1. Restoration of health; recovery from disease.

  2. A method or course of treatment used to restore health.

  3. An agent that restores health; a remedy.

v. cured, cur·ing, cures

  1. To restore a person to health.

  2. To effect a recovery from a disease or disorder.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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Idioms & Phrases

cure

see kill or cure; ounce of prevention (is worth a pound of cure); sure cure.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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