1. (n.)cure a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
2. cure a method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease.
3. cure successful remedial treatment; restoration to health.
4. cure a means of correcting or relieving anything troublesome or detrimental: a cure for inflation.
5. cure a process of preserving meat, fish, etc., by smoking, salting, or the like.
6. cure spiritual or religious charge of the people in a certain district.
7. cure the office or district of a curate.
8. (v.t.)cure to restore to health.
9. cure to relieve or rid of (an illness, bad habit, etc.).
10. cure to prepare (meat, fish, etc.) for preservation by smoking, salting, etc.
11. cure to process (rubber, tobacco, etc.) as by fermentation or aging.
12. cure to promote hardening of (fresh concrete or mortar), as by keeping damp.
13. (v.i.)cure to effect a cure.
14. cure to become cured.
Etymology: (1250–1300; (v.) < MF curer < L cūrāre to take care of, der. of cūra care; (n.) < OF cure < L cūra)
Definition of 'Cure'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (verb)remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
2. (verb)bring around, cure, heal provide a cure for, make healthy again "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
3. (verb)cure prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"
4. (verb)cure make (substances) hard and improve their usability "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"
5. (verb)cure be or become preserved "the apricots cure in the sun"
1. (noun)cure a method or medicine that makes an illness better a cure for cancer
2. cure a solution to a problem a cure for the company's financial problems
3. (verb)cure to make an illness or person better Can a genetic disease be cured?; They claim to have cured several people of cancer.
4. cure to solve a problem ways of curing employee burnout
5. cure to preserve food or plants instructions for curing ham; Wait for the wood to cure.
Definition of 'Cure'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Cure care, heed, or attention
2. (noun)Cure spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parishpriest 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