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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
cure
n 1: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
[syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic]
v 1: provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment
cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal
patients but never managed to" [syn: bring around,
cure, heal]
2: prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order
to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"
3: make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure
resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"
4: be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Cure \Cure\ (k[=u]r), n. [OF, cure care, F., also, cure,
healing, cure of souls, L. cura care, medical attendance,
cure; perh. akin to cavere to pay heed, E. cution. Cure is
not related to care.]
1. Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.]
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Of study took he most cure and most heed. --Chaucer.
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Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. --Fuller.
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2. 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.
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The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had
the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
--Spelman.
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3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a
method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
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4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to
health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
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Past hope! pastcure! past help. --Shak.
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I do cures to-day and to-morrow. --Luke xii.
32.
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5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals;
a remedy; a restorative.
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Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
--Dryden.
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The proper cure of such prejudices. --Bp. Hurd.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Cure \Cure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cured (k[=u]rd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Curing.] [OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to
cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr. cura. See
Cure,.]
1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to
make well; -- said of a patient.
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The child was cured from that very hour. --Matt.
xvii. 18.
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2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to
remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
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To cure this deadly grief. --Shak.
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Then he called his twelve disciples together, and
gave them power . . . to cure diseases. --Luke ix.
1.
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3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as
from a bad habit.
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I never knew any man cured of inattention. --Swift.
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4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to
preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or
fish; to cure hay.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Cure \Cure\, v. i.
1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.]
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2. To restore health; to effect a cure.
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Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,
Is able with the change to kill and cure. --Shak.
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3. To become healed.
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One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
--Shak.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Cur'e \Cu`r['e]"\ (k[.u]`r[asl]"), n. [F., fr. LL. curatus. See
Curate.]
A curate; a pardon.
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6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
CURE. A restoration to health.
2. A person who had quitted the habit of drunkenness for the space of
nine months, in consequence of medicines he had taken, and who had lost his
appetite for ardent spirits, was held to have been cured. 7 Yerg. R. 146.
3. In a figurative sense, to cure is to remedy any defect; as, an
informal statement of the plaintiff's cause of action in his declaration is
cured by verdict, provided it be substantially stated.
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Thesaurus Results for Cure:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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