Cure

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A drug or course of medical treatment used to restore health.
  • noun. Restoration of health; recovery from disease.
  • noun. Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation.
  • noun. Spiritual charge or care, as of a priest for a congregation.
  • noun. The office or duties of a curate.
  • noun. The act or process of preserving a product.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To cause to be free of a disease or unhealthy condition.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to be free of, to lose interest in, or to stop doing something.
  • intransitive verb. To eliminate (a disease, for example) from the body by medical or other treatment; cause recovery from.
  • intransitive verb. To remove or remedy (something harmful or disturbing).
  • intransitive verb. To preserve (meat, for example), as by salting, smoking, or aging.
  • intransitive verb. To prepare, preserve, or finish (a substance) by a chemical or physical process.
  • intransitive verb. To vulcanize (rubber).
  • intransitive verb. To effect a cure or recovery.
  • intransitive verb. To be prepared, preserved, or finished by a chemical or physical process.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. That which is cured (see cure, v. 4); a product preserved by drying, salting, etc.; a catch of fish so treated.
  • noun. Care; concern; oversight; charge.
  • noun. Specifically Spiritual charge; the employment or office of a curate or parish priest; curacy: as, the cure of souls (see below): ordinarily confined in use to the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches.
  • noun. The successful remedial treatment of a disease; the restoration of a sick person to health: as, to effect a cure.
  • noun. A method or course of remedial treatment for disease, whether successful or not: as, the water-cure.
  • noun. A remedy for disease; a means of curing disease; that which heals: as, a cure for toothache.
  • To take care of; care for.
  • To restore to health or to a sound state; heal or make well: as, he was cured of a wound, or of a fever.
  • To remove or put an end to by remedial means; heal, as a disease; remedy, as an evil of any kind; remove, as something objectionable.
  • To prepare for preservation by drying, salting, etc.: as, to cure hay; to cure fish or beef.
  • To care; take care; be careful.
  • To effect a cure.
  • To become well; be cured.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
  • transitive verb. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
  • transitive verb. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
  • transitive verb. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc..
  • noun. Care, heed, or attention.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment.
  • noun. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
  • noun. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
  • intransitive verb. To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
  • intransitive verb. To restore health; to effect a cure.
  • intransitive verb. To become healed.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
  • noun. A solution to a problem.
  • noun. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
  • noun. A process of solidification or gelling.
  • noun. A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
  • noun. Care, heed, or attention.
  • noun. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate;
  • noun. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.
  • Word Usage
    "We rarely use the word cure in metastatic disease, Canetta said, but some patients getting Yervoy have now been followed for four years or more."
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    change  harden  indurate  
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    Baldur  Bloor  Moor  Moore  Muir  
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