Cure
[kjʊə;kjɔː] or [kjʊr]
Definition
(verb.) prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; 'cure meats'; 'cure pickles'; 'cure hay'.
(verb.) be or become preserved; 'the apricots cure in the sun'.
(verb.) make (substances) hard and improve their usability; 'cure resin'; 'cure cement'; 'cure soap'.
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Definition
(n.) Care, heed, or attention.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
(n.) Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
(n.) Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
(v. t.) To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
(v. t.) To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
(v. t.) To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
(v. t.) To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
(v. i.) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
(v. i.) To restore health; to effect a cure.
(v. i.) To become healed.
(n.) A curate; a pardon.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Remedy, antidote, specific, restorative, reparative, corrective, help.[2]. Healing, restoration.
v. a. [1]. Remedy, heal.[2]. Restore to health.[3]. Preserve (from putrefaction).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See HEAL]
SYN:Remedy, alleviation, restorative, heal-all, amelioration, reinstatement,restoration, renovation, convalescence
ANT:Aggravation, confirmation, complaint, disease, ailment, inoculation, contagion,corruption
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Definition
n. care of souls or spiritual charge: care of the sick: act of healing: that which heals: a remedy or course of remedial treatment.—v.t. to heal: to preserve as by drying salting &c.:—pr.p. cūr′ing; pa.p. cūred.—adj. Cur′able that may be cured.—ns. Cur′ableness Curabil′ity quality of being curable; Cure′-all a panacea.—adjs. Cur′ative Cur′atory tending to cure; Cure′less that cannot be cured.—ns. Cur′er one who cures: a physician; Cur′ing-house a house or place in which anything is cured esp. a building in which sugar is drained as in the West Indies.
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Examples
- The will can cure anything, and put anything right. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I've found a sov'rin' cure for that, Sammy,' said Mr. Weller, setting down the glass. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Thank you, said my patient, but I have felt another man since the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has completed the cure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We'll cure you of that, my young master. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- No--I heard her tell Bertha Dorset that she had six months to put in while her husband was taking the cure in the Engadine. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But she can pet and comfort him after I'm gone, and so cure him of this romantic notion. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I believe confession, in your case, would be half equivalent to cure. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But I can't be cured of my vagaries; them I plead guilty to. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Men made bridges before there was a science of bridge-building; they cured disease before they knew medicine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Honest diseases they honestly cured; and if a man was wounded, they applied the proper remedies, and then let him eat and drink what he liked. Plato. The Republic.
- How is Rubber Cured on Modern Plantations? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This phrase, in its senseless arrogance, quite cured me of the temporary weakness which had made me relax my tone and aspect. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Perfectly cured he certainly was not, for he supported himself forward on crutches to give evidence. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The sleep of this afternoon has quite cured my fatigues of last night. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is surely a dream, said the Preceptor; we have many Jewish physicians, and we call them not wizards though they work wonderful cures. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- That cant about cures was never got up by sound practitioners. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It cures everything. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Medicated pads are quite popular with many who have tried them, and a multitude of remarkable cures are attributed to their use. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The physician should have had experience of disease in his own body, for he cures with his mind and not with his body. Plato. The Republic.
- When I say, I go in for the dose that cures, it doesn't follow that I go in for opium in a given case of gout. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She started--then endeavoured to say calmly, Cynics say that cures the anxiety by curing the love. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A bad case, murmured the Rector, shaking his gray head; a very bad case, which needs curing. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- In the dry-salt curing cellars are kept enormous stocks of the cheaper kinds of meat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She started--then endeavoured to say calmly, Cynics say that cures the anxiety by curing the love. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But come, Maurice, said the Rector, after a pause, I was talking about curing you by marriage. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- To remedy which, there was a sort of people bred up among us in the profession, or pretence, of curing the sick. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The brines and curing mixtures are prepared by trained men who do no other work but this. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The average person does not have even an idea of what the modern curing cellar is like. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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