cure

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From Old French, cure (“‘care", "cure", "healing", "cure of souls’”), from Latin cura (“‘care", "medical attendance", "cure’”)

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Singular
cure

Plural
cures

cure (plural cures)

  1. a method, device or medication that restores good health
  2. a solution to a problem
  3. a process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering
  4. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
  5. 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
    • The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman.

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Infinitive
to cure

Third person singular
cures

Simple past
cured

Past participle
cured

Present participle
curing

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

  1. to restore to good health
  2. to relieve from a disease or its ill effects
  3. to preserve a food or other product such as tobacco
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[edit] French

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Latin cura.

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cure f. (plural cures)

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

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cure

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

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cure f.

  1. Plural form of cura.
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