cure
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (4)cures, cured, curing
- provide a cure for, make healthy again“The treatment cured the boy's acne”“The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to”Synonyms: bring aroundhealMore general help, aidMore specific recuperateInvolves treat, care for
- prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve“cure meats”“cure pickles”“cure hay”More general preserve, keepMore specific dun
- make (substances) hard and improve their usability“cure resin”“cure cement”“cure soap”More general harden, indurate
- be or become preserved“the apricots cure in the sun”More general change
Noun (1)cures
- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve painSynonyms: remedycurativetherapeuticType of medicine, medicationKinds panacea, ointment, emetic, preventive, magic bullet, acoustic, antidote, palliative, lotion, lenitivePart of treatment, intervention
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Translations
Verb to restore to health
Noun method, device or medication that restores good health
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OF, cure care, F., also, cure, healing, cure of souls, L. cura care, medical attendance, cure; perh. akin to cavere to pay heed, E. cution. Cure is not related to care.
1. Care, heed, or attention. obsolete
Of study took he most cure and most heed.— Geoffrey Chaucer
Vicarages of greatcure, but small value.— Thomas Fuller
2. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.
The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.— Sir Henry Spelman
3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
Past hope! pastcure! past help.— William Shakespeare
I do cures to-day and to-morrow.— Luke xii. 32.
5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.— John Dryden
The proper cure of such prejudices.— Bp. Richard Hurd
Origin: OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr. cura. See Cure,.
1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; — said of a patient.
The child was cured from that very hour.— Matt. xvii. 18.
2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; — said of a malady.
To cure this deadly grief.— William Shakespeare
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power... to cure diseases.— Luke ix. 1.
3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
I never knew any man cured of inattention.— Jonathan Swift
4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. obsolete
2. To restore health; to effect a cure.
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure.— William Shakespeare
3. To become healed.
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.— William Shakespeare
Origin: F., fr. LL. curatus. See Curate.
A curate; a pardon.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54