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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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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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Curing

Cur"ing\ (k?r"?ng), p. a. & vb. n. of Cure.

Curing house, a building in which anything is cured; especially, in the West Indies, a building in which sugar is drained and dried.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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