cure
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See also curé
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French, cure (“care, cure, healing, cure of souls”), from Latin cura (“care, medical attendance, cure”)
Pronunciation [edit]
- (RP) IPA: /kjʊə(ɹ)/, /kjɔː(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /kjU@(r\)/, /kjO:(r\)/
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
- (US) IPA: /kjʊɹ/, /kjɔɹ/, /kjɝ/
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Noun [edit]
cure (plural cures)
- A method, device or medication that restores good health.
- 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;
- (Can we date this quote?) Spelman:
- The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
- (Can we date this quote?) Spelman:
- That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.
Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from cure (noun)
Translations [edit]
a method, device or medication that restores good health
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a process of preservation, as by smoking or treating with salt
a process of solidification or gelling
a process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering
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Verb [edit]
cure (third-person singular simple present cures, present participle curing, simple past and past participle cured)
- (transitive) To restore to health.
- Unaided nature cured him.
- (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
- Unaided nature cured his ailments.
- Shakespeare
- Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure.
- (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
- Experience will cure him of his naivete.
- (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
- The smoke and heat cures the meat.
- (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.
- Shakespeare
- One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
Synonyms [edit]
- (restore to good health): heal
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to restore to health
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to bring (a disease) to an end
to cause to be rid of (a defect)
to prepare for keeping or use
to being about a cure
to undergo a process for preservation or use
Related terms [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin cura.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /kyʁ/
Noun [edit]
cure f (plural cures)
- (archaic) care, concern
- (obsolete) healing, recovery
- (medicine) treatment; cure
- (religion) vicarage, presbytery
Verb [edit]
cure
- first-person singular present indicative of curer
- third-person singular present indicative of curer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
- second-person singular imperative of curer
Anagrams [edit]
Galician [edit]
Verb [edit]
cure
- first-person singular present subjunctive of curar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of curar
Italian [edit]
Noun [edit]
cure f
- Plural form of cura
Anagrams [edit]
Old French [edit]
Noun [edit]
cure f (oblique plural cures, nominative singular cure, nominative plural cures)
Descendants [edit]
References [edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881)
Romanian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin currere, present active infinitive of currō. Mostly replaced by the modified variant form curge.
Verb [edit]
a cure (third-person singular present curge, past participle curs) 3rd conj.
Synonyms [edit]
Related terms [edit]
Spanish [edit]
Verb [edit]
cure (infinitive curar)
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English nouns
- en:Engineering
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English verbs
- French terms derived from Latin
- French nouns
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- French countable nouns
- French archaic terms
- French terms with obsolete senses
- fr:Medicine
- fr:Religion
- French verb forms
- Galician verb forms
- Italian plurals
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns
- Romanian terms derived from Latin
- Romanian verbs in 3rd conjugation
- Romanian verbs
- Romanian archaic terms
- Spanish verb forms
- Spanish verb subjunctive forms
- Spanish verb singular forms
- Spanish verb first-person forms
- Spanish verb present forms
- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish verb third-person forms
- Spanish verb imperative forms
- Spanish verb second-person forms
- Spanish verb formal forms