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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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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
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

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
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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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
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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