cure

cure  (kyr)

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.

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[Middle English, from Old French, medical treatment, from Latin cra, from Archaic Latin coisa-.]

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curer n.

cureless adj.

Synonyms: cure, heal, remedy
These verbs mean to set right an undesirable or unhealthy condition: cure an ailing economy; heal a wounded spirit; remedy a structural defect.

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cure

Verb

[curing, cured]

1. to get rid of (an ailment or problem)

2. to restore (someone) to health

3. to preserve (meat or fish) by salting or smoking

4. to preserve (leather or tobacco) by drying

5. to vulcanize (rubber)

Noun

1. a restoration to health

2. medical treatment that restores health

3. a means of restoring health or improving a situation

4. a curacy [Latin cura care]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cure - a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain curative, therapeutic, remedy treatment, 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 emetic, nauseant, vomitive, vomit - a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting 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 alleviant, palliative, alleviator - remedy that alleviates pain without curing 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" bring around, heal 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" aid, help - improve the condition of; "These pills will help the patient" 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" preserve, keep - prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh" 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" harden, indurate - become hard or harder; "The wax hardened"
	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

verb 2. restore to health, restore, heal

verb 3. preserve, smoke, dry, salt, pickle, kipper

noun 4. remedy, treatment, medicine, healing, antidote, corrective, panacea, restorative, nostrum

Translations

cure [kjuəʳ] vt → curar

n → cura, curación f;

to be cured of sth → curarse de algo;

to take a cure → tomar un remedio

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cure [kjuəʳ] vt → guérir;

(Culin) (= salt); saler: (= smoke); fumer: (= dry); sécher

n → remède m;

to be cured of sth → être guéri de qch

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cure [kjuəʳ] vt → heilen;

(Culin) (salt) → pökeln;

(000) (smoke) → räuchern;

(000) (dry) → trocknen;

(problem) → abhelfen +dat

n (remedy) → (Heil)mittel nt;

(treatment) → Heilverfahren nt;

(solution) → Abhilfe f;

to be cured of sth → von etw geheilt sein

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cure [kjuəʳ] vt → guarire;

(CULIN) → trattare; affumicare; essiccare

n → rimedio;

to be cured of sth → essere guarito/a da qc