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cure
1[ kyoor ]
noun
- a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- a method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease.
Synonyms: , , ,
- successful remedial treatment; restoration to health.
- a means of correcting or relieving anything that is troublesome or detrimental:
The administration is seeking a cure for inflation.
- the act or a method of preserving meat, fish, etc., by smoking, salting, or the like.
- spiritual or religious charge of the people in a certain district.
- the office or district of a curate or parish priest.
verb (used with object)
- to restore to health.
- to relieve or rid of something detrimental, such as an illness or a bad habit.
- to correct (a document, especially a mail-in ballot) in order to make it valid:
If the voter’s signature is missing, the county board sends them a certification form allowing the voter to cure the ballot so it can be counted.
- to prepare (meat, fish, etc.) for preservation by salting, drying, etc.
- to promote hardening of (fresh concrete or mortar), as by keeping it damp.
- to process (rubber, tobacco, etc.) as by fermentation or aging.
verb (used without object)
- to effect a cure.
- to become cured.
ܰé
2[ kyoo-rey, kyoor-ey; French ky-rey ]
noun
- (in France) a parish priest.
ܰé
1/ ˈʊəɪ /
noun
- a parish priest in France
cure
2/ ʊə /
verb
- tr to get rid of (an ailment, fault, or problem); heal
- tr to restore to health or good condition
- intr to bring about a cure
- tr to preserve (meat, fish, etc) by salting, smoking, etc
- tr
- to treat or finish (a substance) by chemical or physical means
- to vulcanize (rubber)
- to allow (a polymer) to set often using heat or pressure
- tr to assist the hardening of (concrete, mortar, etc) by keeping it moist
noun
- a return to health, esp after specific treatment
- any course of medical therapy, esp one proved effective in combating a disease
- a means of restoring health or improving a condition, situation, etc
- the spiritual and pastoral charge of a parish
the cure of souls
- a process or method of preserving meat, fish, etc, by salting, pickling, or smoking
Derived Forms
- ˈܰ, noun
- ˈܰ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ܰ· adjective
- ܰ··ly adverb
- ܰ· noun
- half-cured adjective
- ··ܰ adjective
- ··ܰ adjective
- ܲ·ܰ adjective
- well-cured adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of cure1
Word History and Origins
Origin of cure1
Origin of cure2
Idioms and Phrases
see kill or cure ; ounce of prevention (is worth a pound of cure) ; sure cure .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
But the idea of curing autism is concerning for some.
And it is not up to Meghan to cure prejudice, whether it's coming from the tabloids, randos on the internet, or her own extended family.
But what the production really needs is a script doctor capable of a miracle cure.
Some of them are praying for a cure.
"I was fortunate in a sense that it was stage one when I was first diagnosed, so I was told that I could be cured - and I was for a year," she continued.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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