cure

See also: Cure, curé, and curê

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)

  1. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
  2. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
  3. (figurative) A solution to a problem.
  4. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
  5. A process of solidification or gelling.
  6. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
  7. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
  8. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
  9. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.

Derived terms

Translations

  • Finnish: säilöntä (fi), palvaaminen
  • German: Pökelung f
  • Hungarian: füstölés, pácolás, sózás
  • Maori: wāmu,whakapaoa (particularly by smoking), whakatotenga (particularly by salting or in brine)
  • Polish: peklowanie (pl) n
  • Spanish: curado (es) m

Verb

cure (third-person singular simple present cures, present participle curing, simple past and past participle cured)

  1. (transitive) To restore to health.
    • Unaided nature cured him.
  2. (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
    • Unaided nature cured his ailments.
  3. (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
    • Experience will cure him of his naïveté.
  4. (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
    • The smoke and heat cures the meat.
  5. To preserve (food), typically by salting.
  6. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
  7. (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
    • The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.
  8. (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
    • The parts were curing in the autoclave.
  9. (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
  10. (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

Derived terms

Translations

  • Hungarian: besóz (hu)
  • Maori: whakatote, wāmu
  • Spanish: salar (es)
  • Finnish: kypsyä (fi)
  • Hungarian: pácolódik, érlelődik (hu)
  • Maori: wāmu, whakapaoa
  • Polish: peklować (pl) impf, zapeklować (pl) pf
  • Spanish: curar (es)

Anagrams

cure - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /kyʁ/

Noun

cure f (plural cures)

  1. (archaic) care, concern
  2. (obsolete) healing, recovery
  3. (medicine) treatment; cure
  4. (religion) vicarage, presbytery

Derived terms

Verb

cure

  1. inflection of curer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

cure - Friulian

Noun

cure f (plural curis)

  1. treatment
  2. cure

cure - Galician

Verb

cure

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of curar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of curar

cure - Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈku.re/
  • Hyphenation: cù‧re

Noun

cure f

  1. plural of cura

Anagrams

cure - Middle English

Noun

cure

  1. Alternative form of curre

cure - Middle French

Noun

cure f (plural cures)

  1. desire

Descendants

cure - Old French

Noun

cure f (oblique plural cures, nominative singular cure, nominative plural cures)

  1. medical attention
  2. worry
  3. desire

Descendants

cure - Portuguese

Verb

cure

  1. inflection of curar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

cure - Romanian

Verb

a cure (third-person singular present curge, past participle curs) 3rd conj.

  1. (archaic) to run
  2. (archaic) to flow
  3. (archaic) to drain

Synonyms

cure - Serbo-Croatian

Noun

cure (Cyrillic spelling цуре)

  1. inflection of cura:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

cure - Spanish

Verb

cure

  1. inflection of curar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
Meaning and Definition of cure
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