cure

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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]

Noun [edit]

cure (plural cures)

  1. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
  2. A solution to a problem.
  3. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
  4. A process of solidification or gelling.
  5. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
  6. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
  7. 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.
  8. 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
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

Verb [edit]

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

  1. (transitive) To restore to health.
    Unaided nature cured him.
  2. (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.
  3. (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
    Experience will cure him of his naivete.
  4. (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
    The smoke and heat cures the meat.
  5. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
  6. (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
    The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.
  7. (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
    The parts were curing in the autoclave.
  8. (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
    • Shakespeare
      One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
  9. (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
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
to solidify or gel

Related terms [edit]

terms related to cure

Anagrams [edit]

French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Latin cura.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

cure f (plural cures)

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

Verb [edit]

cure

  1. first-person singular present indicative of curer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of curer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
  5. second-person singular imperative of curer

Anagrams [edit]

Galician [edit]

Verb [edit]

cure

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

Italian [edit]

Noun [edit]

cure f

  1. Plural form of cura

Anagrams [edit]

Old French [edit]

Noun [edit]

cure f (oblique plural cures, nominative singular cure, nominative plural cures)

  1. medical attention
  2. worry

Descendants [edit]

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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.

  1. (archaic) to run
  2. (archaic) to flow
  3. (archaic) to drain

Synonyms [edit]

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Spanish [edit]

Verb [edit]

cure (infinitive curar)

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of curar.
  2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of curar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of curar.
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