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cure
(kyo͝or)n.
1.
a. A drug or course of medical treatment used to restore health: discovered a new cure for ulcers.
b. Restoration of health; recovery from disease: the likelihood of cure.
c. Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation: The cats proved to be a good cure for our mouse problem.
2. Ecclesiastical Spiritual charge or care, as of a priest for a congregation.
3. The office or duties of a curate.
4. The act or process of preserving a product.
v. cured, cur·ing, cures
v.tr.
1.
a. To cause to be free of a disease or unhealthy condition: medicine that cured the patient of gout.
b. To cause to be free of, to lose interest in, or to stop doing something: a remark that cured me of the illusion that I might be a good singer; a bad reaction that cured him of the desire to smoke cigars; a visit to the dentist that cured her of eating sweets.
2. To eliminate (a disease, for example) from the body by medical or other treatment; cause recovery from: new antibiotics to cure infections.
3. To remove or remedy (something harmful or disturbing): cure a social 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 drug that cures without side effects.
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-.]
cure′less adj.
cur′er n.
cu·ré
(kyo͝o-rā′, kyo͝or′ā′)n.
A parish priest, especially in a French-speaking community.
[French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin cūrātus; see curate1.]
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cure
(kjʊə)vb
1. (tr) to get rid of (an ailment, fault, or problem); heal
2. (tr) to restore to health or good condition
3. (intr) to bring about a cure
4. (Cookery) (tr) to preserve (meat, fish, etc) by salting, smoking, etc
5. (Chemical Engineering) (tr)
a. to treat or finish (a substance) by chemical or physical means
b. to vulcanize (rubber)
c. to allow (a polymer) to set often using heat or pressure
6. (Building) (tr) to assist the hardening of (concrete, mortar, etc) by keeping it moist
n
7. (Medicine) a return to health, esp after specific treatment
8. (Medicine) any course of medical therapy, esp one proved effective in combating a disease
9. a means of restoring health or improving a condition, situation, etc
10. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the spiritual and pastoral charge of a parish: the cure of souls.
11. (Cookery) a process or method of preserving meat, fish, etc, by salting, pickling, or smoking
[(n) C13: from Old French, from Latin cūra care; in ecclesiastical sense, from Medieval Latin cūra spiritual charge; (vb) C14: from Old French curer, from Latin cūrāre to attend to, heal, from cūra care]
ˈcureless adj
ˈcurer n
curé
(ˈkjʊəreɪ)n
(Roman Catholic Church) a parish priest in France
[French, from Medieval Latin cūrātus; see curate1]
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cure
(kyʊər)n., v. cured, cur•ing. n.
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 troublesome or detrimental: a cure for inflation.
5. a process 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.
v.t. 8. to restore to health.
9. to relieve or rid of (an illness, bad habit, etc.).
10. to prepare (meat, fish, etc.) for preservation by smoking, salting, etc.
11. to process (rubber, tobacco, etc.) as by fermentation or aging.
12. to promote hardening of (fresh concrete or mortar), as by keeping damp.
v.i. 13. to effect a cure.
14. to become cured.
[1250–1300; (v.) < Middle French curer < Latin cūrāre to take care of, derivative of cūra care; (n.) < Old French cure < Latin cūra]
cure′less, adj.
cur′er, n.
cu•ré
(kyʊˈreɪ, ˈkyʊər eɪ)n., pl. -rés.
(in France) a parish priest.
[1645–55; < French, Old French; modeled on Medieval Latin cūrātus parish priest; see curate]
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cure
Past participle: cured
Gerund: curing
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cure
To preserve meat or fish by salting, drying or smoking.
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| Noun | 1. |  cure - a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve paintreatment, intervention - care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) acoustic - a remedy for hearing loss or deafness antidote, counterpoison - a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison lenitive - remedy that eases pain and discomfort lotion, application - liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin; "a lotion for dry skin" magic bullet - a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease; "there is no magic bullet against cancer" medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine - (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease ointment, salve, unguent, balm, unction - semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation catholicon, cure-all, nostrum, panacea - hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists preventative, preventive, prophylactic - remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease; "the doctor recommended several preventatives" |
| Verb | 1. | cure - provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to" practice of medicine, medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard" recuperate - restore to good health or strength |
| 2. | cure - prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay" cure - be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun" dun - cure by salting; "dun codfish" | |
| 3. | cure - make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap" | |
| 4. | cure - be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun" change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" cure - prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay" |
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cure
verb
1. make better, correct, heal, relieve, remedy, mend, rehabilitate, help, ease An operation finally cured his shin injury.
noun
1. remedy, treatment, medicine, healing, antidote, corrective, panacea, restorative, nostrum There is still no cure for the common cold.
Quotations
"It is part of the cure to wish to be cured" [Seneca Phaedra]
"The cure is worse than the disease" [Philip Massinger The Bondman]
"It is part of the cure to wish to be cured" [Seneca Phaedra]
"The cure is worse than the disease" [Philip Massinger The Bondman]
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
cure
noun1. An agent used to restore health:
2. Something that corrects or counteracts:
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cure
[kjʊəʳ]A. N (= remedy) → remedio m; (= course of treatment) → cura f; (= process of recovery) → curación f
there is no known cure → no existe curación
to be beyond cure [person] → padecer una enfermedad incurable; [situation, injustice] → ser irremediable
to take a cure (for illness) → tomar un remedio
there is no known cure → no existe curación
to be beyond cure [person] → padecer una enfermedad incurable; [situation, injustice] → ser irremediable
to take a cure (for illness) → tomar un remedio
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
cure
(kjuə) verb2. to get rid of (an illness etc). That pill cured my headache.curar
3. to preserve (bacon etc) by drying, salting etc. curar
nounˈcurable adjective able to be cured. a curable form of cancer.curable, que tiene cura
curative (ˈkjuərətiv) adjective intended to, or likely to, cure. curative treatment.curativo
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
cure
→ cura , curarMultilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
cure
n. curación, remedio;
v. curar, sanar, remediar.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
cure
n cura, remedio; vt curarEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.