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cure

/kjʊɹ/

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What does cure mean?

noun

  1. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
  2. An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
  3. (figuratively) A solution to a problem.
More meanings (19)

noun

  1. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
  2. Cured fish.
  3. A process of solidification or gelling.
  4. A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
  5. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
  6. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
  7. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
  8. (obsolete, slang) An eccentric person.

verb

  1. To restore to health.
  2. To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
  3. To cause to be rid of (a defect).
  4. To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
  5. To preserve (food), typically by salting.
  6. To bring about a cure of any kind.
  7. To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
  8. To solidify or gel.
  9. (obsolete) To become healed.
  10. (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

proper noun

  1. A surname.
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IPA pronunciation

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/kjɝ/
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In the pages of books

See this word in context.

One of the soldiers had seen her work a cure upon a wounded man, brought with them to the castle of Torquilstone.
Walter ScottIvanhoe: A RomanceProject Gutenberg ebook #82
The old doctrine that submission is the very best cure for outrage and wrong, does not hold good on the slave plantation.
Frederick DouglassMy Bondage and My FreedomProject Gutenberg ebook #202
More book examples (3)
By hastily concluding that the latter is the sole explanation for them, we make no attempt to heal and cure the situation.
Jane AddamsTwenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical NotesProject Gutenberg ebook #1325
You may as well try to cure a diseased lung by working it, as to cure a lame horse by galloping him.
Charles KingsleySanitary and Social Lectures and EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #1637
I was no longer dependent upon others, no longer looking to physicians or elocution teachers or hypnotists to cure me of stammering.
Benjamin Nathaniel BogueStammering, its cause and cureProject Gutenberg ebook #4256