cured

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.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	cured - freed from illness or injury; "the patient appears cured"; "the incision is healed"; "appears to be entirely recovered"; "when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium"- Normon Cameron healed, recovered well - in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury; "appears to be entirely well"; "the wound is nearly well"; "a well man"; "I think I'm well; at least I feel well"
	2.	cured - (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) vulcanised, vulcanized processed - prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process; "processed ores"
	3.	cured - (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening seasoned - aged or processed; "seasoned wood"
	4.	cured - (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry preserved - prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use
	5.	cured - (used especially of meat) cured in brine corned preserved - prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use
	6.	cured - (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable) aged preserved - prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use