Definitions of cure [ʊər]

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Definition of 'cure'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

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"

Definition of 'cure'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

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 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

3. (noun) cure
medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure

4. (noun) cure
act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury

5. (noun) cure
means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative

6. (noun) cure
a curate; a pardon

7. (verb) cure
to heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient

8. (verb) cure
to subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady

9. (verb) cure
to set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit

10. (verb) cure
to prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay

11. (verb) cure
to pay heed; to care; to give attention

12. (verb) cure
to restore health; to effect a cure

13. (verb) cure
to become healed

Translation of 'cure'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to make better That medicine cured me; That will cure him of his bad habits.
Afrikaans: genees	Arabic: يَشْفي، يُخلِّص	Bulgarian: лекувам
Brazilian: curar	Czech: (vy)léčit	German: heilen
Danish: helbrede; kurere	Greek: θεραπεύω	Spanish: curar, remediar
Estonian: ravima	Farsi: مداوا کردن؛ درمان کردن	Finnish: parantaa
French: guérir	Hebrew: לְרַפֵא	Hindi: बेहतर करना
Croatian: izliječiti	Hungarian: (meg)gyógyít	Indonesian: menyembuhkan
Icelandic: lækna	Italian: curare, guarire	Japanese: 直す
Korean: 치유하다	Lithuanian: išgydyti	Latvian: []ārstēt
Malay: menyembuhkan	Dutch: genezen	Norwegian: helbrede, kurere
Polish: leczyć	Persian: مداوا کردن؛ درمان کردن	Pashto: درملنه کول
Portuguese: curar	Romanian: a vindeca	Russian: исцелять
Slovak: (vy)liečiť	Slovenian: zdraviti	Serbian: izlečiti
Swedish: bota, kurera	Thai: รักษา	Turkish: tedavi etmek, iyileştirme
Taiwanese: 使好轉	Ukrainian: відучувати, зціляти	Urdu: تندرست كرنا، علاج كرنا
Vietnamese: làm cho ai khỏe mạnh	Chinese: 医治
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