cure
cure - English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kjʊə(ɹ)/, /kjɔː(ɹ)/, /kjɜː(ɹ)/
- (General American) enPR: kyo͝or, kyûr, IPA: /kjʊɹ/, /kjɝ/
- (Norfolk) IPA: /kɜː(ɹ)/
Noun
cure (plural cures)
- A method, device or medication that restores good health.
- Synonyms: curative, mithridate, treacle
- Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
- (figurative) A solution to a problem.
- A process of preservation, as by smoking.
- A process of solidification or gelling.
- (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
- (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
- Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
- That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
- Synonym: curacy
Derived terms
- an ounce of prevention is better than an ounce of cure
- an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure
- an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
- anti-cure
- cureless
- faith-cure
- Lunenburg cure
- miscure
- overcure
- prevention is better than cure
- sun cure
- sweetcure
- take the cure
- the cure is worse than the disease
- undercure
- water cure
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Verb
cure (third-person singular simple present cures, present participle curing, simple past and past participle cured)
- (transitive) To restore to health.
- Synonym: heal
- Unaided nature cured him.
- (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
- Unaided nature cured his ailments.
- (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
- Experience will cure him of his naïveté.
- (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
- The smoke and heat cures the meat.
- To preserve (food), typically by salting.
- (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
- (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
- The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.
- (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
- The parts were curing in the autoclave.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
- (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
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cure - French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kyʁ/
Noun
cure f (plural cures)
- (archaic) care, concern
- (obsolete) healing, recovery
- (medicine) treatment; cure
- (religion) vicarage, presbytery
Derived terms
Related terms
Verb
cure
- inflection of curer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
cure - Friulian
Noun
cure f (plural curis)
Related terms
cure - Galician
Verb
cure
cure - Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈku.re/
- Hyphenation: cù‧re
Noun
cure f
- plural of cura
Anagrams
cure - Middle English
Noun
cure
- Alternative form of curre
cure - Middle French
Noun
cure f (plural cures)
Descendants
- French: cure
cure - Old French
Noun
cure f (oblique plural cures, nominative singular cure, nominative plural cures)
Related terms
Descendants
cure - Portuguese
Verb
cure
- inflection of curar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
cure - Romanian
Verb
a cure (third-person singular present curge, past participle curs) 3rd conj.
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Related terms
cure - Serbo-Croatian
Noun
cure (Cyrillic spelling цуре)
- inflection of cura:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
cure - Spanish
Verb
cure
- inflection of curar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative