noun |
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. |
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verb-intransitive |
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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verb-transitive |
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). |
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