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Definition of Cure
1. Verb. Provide a cure for, make healthy again. "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
Category relationships: Medicine, Practice Of Medicine
Entails: Care For, Treat
Generic synonyms: Aid, Help
Specialized synonyms: Recuperate
Derivative terms: Curable, Curative, Healer
2. Noun. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain.
Group relationships: Intervention, Treatment
Specialized synonyms: Acoustic, Antidote, Counterpoison, Emetic, Nauseant, Vomit, Vomitive, Lenitive, Application, Lotion, Magic Bullet, Balm, Ointment, Salve, Unction, Unguent, Alleviant, Alleviator, Palliative, Catholicon, Cure-all, Nostrum, Panacea, Preventative, Preventive, Prophylactic
Generic synonyms: Medicament, Medication, Medicinal Drug, Medicine
Derivative terms: Remedial, Remedy
3. Verb. Prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve. "Cure hay"
4. Verb. Make (substances) hard and improve their usability. "Cure soap"
5. Verb. Be or become preserved. "The apricots cure in the sun"
Definition of Cure
1. n. Care, heed, or attention.
2. v. t. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
3. v. i. To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
Definition of Cure
1. Noun. A method, device or medication that restores good health. ¹
2. Noun. A solution to a problem. ¹
3. Noun. A process of preservation, as by smoking. ¹
4. Noun. A process of solidification or gelling. ¹
5. Noun. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering. ¹
6. Noun. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention. ¹
7. Noun. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; ¹
8. Noun. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy. ¹
9. Verb. (transitive) To restore to health. ¹
10. Verb. (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end. ¹
11. Verb. (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect). ¹
12. Verb. (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use. ¹
13. Verb. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind. ¹
14. Verb. (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use. ¹
15. Verb. (intransitive) To solidify or gel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cure
1. to restore to health [v CURED, CURING, CURES]
Medical Definition of Cure
1. 1. To heal; to make well. 2. A restoration to health. 3. A special method or course of treatment. See: dental curing. Origin: L. Curo, to care for (05 Mar 2000)
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