'Cure' definitions:

Definition of 'cure'

(from WordNet)
noun
A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain [syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic]
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

Words containing 'Cure'