'Cure' definitions:
Definition of 'cure'
From: WordNet
noun
verb
Provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to" [syn: bring around, cure, heal]
verb
Prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"
verb
Make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"
verb
Be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
Definition of 'Cure'
From: GCIDE
- Cure \Cure\ (k[=u]r), n. [OF, cure care, F., also, cure, healing, cure of souls, L. cura care, medical attendance, cure; perh. akin to cavere to pay heed, E. cution. Cure is not related to care.]
- 1. Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Of study took he most cure and most heed. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure. [1913 Webster]
- The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. --Spelman. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury. [1913 Webster]
- Past hope! pastcure! past help. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- I do cures to-day and to-morrow. --Luke xii. 32. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative. [1913 Webster]
- Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- The proper cure of such prejudices. --Bp. Hurd. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cure'
From: GCIDE
- Cure \Cure\, v. i.
- 1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. To restore health; to effect a cure. [1913 Webster]
- Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To become healed. [1913 Webster]
- One desperate grief cures with another's languish. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cure'
From: GCIDE
- Cure \Cure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cured (k[=u]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curing.] [OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr. cura. See Cure,.]
- 1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient. [1913 Webster]
- The child was cured from that very hour. --Matt. xvii. 18. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady. [1913 Webster]
- To cure this deadly grief. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases. --Luke ix. 1. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. [1913 Webster]
- I never knew any man cured of inattention. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cure'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- administration,
- advowson,
- agency,
- agentship,
- aid,
- air-dry,
- alterative,
- ameliorate,
- analeptic,
- anhydrate,
- antidote,
- arrange,
- assignment,
- assistance,
- auspices,
- authority,
- authorization,
- bake,
- balm,
- balsam,
- bandage,
- bathe,
- benefice,
- better,
- blast-freeze,
- blot,
- break of,
- brevet,
- brine,
- bring around,
- bring round,
- brush,
- burn,
- care,
- care for,
- care of souls,
- charge,
- clear for action,
- clear the decks,
- commission,
- commissioning,
- commitment,
- consignment,
- corn,
- correct,
- corrective,
- counteractant,
- counteractive,
- counteragent,
- countermeasure,
- counterstep,
- curacy,
- curative measures,
- cure-all,
- curing,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- dehumidify,
- dehydrate,
- delegated authority,
- delegation,
- deploy,
- deputation,
- desiccate,
- devolution,
- devolvement,
- diagnose,
- disaccustom,
- doctor,
- drain,
- dress,
- drug,
- dry,
- dry-cure,
- dry-salt,
- elixir,
- embalm,
- embassy,
- empowerment,
- entrusting,
- entrustment,
- errand,
- evaporate,
- executorship,
- exequatur,
- exsiccate,
- factorship,
- fire,
- first aid,
- fix,
- fix up,
- flux,
- freeze,
- freeze-dry,
- full power,
- fume,
- get ready,
- give care to,
- glebe,
- governance,
- government,
- guardianship,
- guidance,
- hands,
- heal,
- healing,
- healing agent,
- healing quality,
- help,
- hospitalization,
- incumbency,
- insolate,
- irradiate,
- jerk,
- jurisdiction,
- keeping,
- kiln,
- kipper,
- legation,
- license,
- lieutenancy,
- living,
- make arrangements,
- make preparations,
- make ready,
- management,
- mandate,
- marinade,
- marinate,
- marshal,
- massage,
- medical treatment,
- medicament,
- medicamentation,
- medicate,
- medication,
- medicine,
- mend,
- minister to,
- ministry,
- mission,
- mobilize,
- mummify,
- nostrum,
- nurse,
- office,
- operate on,
- oversight,
- panacea,
- parch,
- pastorage,
- pastorate,
- pastorship,
- patronage,
- pharmacon,
- physic,
- pickle,
- plan,
- plaster,
- plenipotentiary power,
- poultice,
- power of attorney,
- power to act,
- prearrange,
- prelacy,
- prep,
- prepare,
- prescribe,
- prescription,
- preservatize,
- preserve,
- pretreat,
- process,
- procuration,
- protectorship,
- provide,
- proxy,
- pull round,
- purge,
- purview,
- put in shape,
- quick-freeze,
- ready,
- ready up,
- receipt,
- recipe,
- rectify,
- rectory,
- recure,
- refrigerate,
- regency,
- regentship,
- regime,
- regimen,
- relief,
- remedial measure,
- remedy,
- repair,
- responsibility,
- restorative,
- restore,
- restore to health,
- rub,
- safe hands,
- salt,
- scorch,
- sear,
- season,
- settle preliminaries,
- shrivel,
- smoke,
- smoke-cure,
- soak up,
- sovereign remedy,
- specific,
- specific remedy,
- splint,
- sponge,
- stewardship,
- stop,
- strap,
- stuff,
- succor,
- sun,
- sun-dry,
- swab,
- tan,
- task,
- therapy,
- torrefy,
- towel,
- treat,
- treatment,
- trim,
- trust,
- trusteeship,
- try out,
- tutelage,
- vicarage,
- vicarious authority,
- ward,
- wardenship,
- wardship,
- warrant,
- watch and ward,
- wean,
- weazen,
- wing,
- wipe,
- wither,
- wizen,
- work a cure