What's The Definition Of Cure?
[n] a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
[v] provide a cure for, make healthy again
[v] prepare by chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Cure: curative |
heal |
remedy
Related Terms | Find terms related to Cure: administration |
advowson |
agency |
agentship |
aid |
air-dry |
alterative |
ameliorate |
analeptic |
anhydrate |
antidote |
arrange |
assignment |
assistance |
auspices |
authority |
authorization |
bake |
balm |
balsam |
bandage |
bathe |
benefice |
better |
blast-freeze |
blot |
break of |
brevet |
brine |
bring around |
bring round |
brush |
burn |
care |
care for |
care of souls |
charge |
clear for action |
clear the decks |
commission |
commissioning |
commitment |
consignment |
corn |
correct |
corrective |
counteractant |
counteractive |
counteragent |
countermeasure |
counterstep |
curacy |
curative measures |
cure-all |
curing |
custodianship |
custody |
dehumidify |
dehydrate |
delegated authority |
delegation |
deploy |
deputation |
desiccate |
devolution |
devolvement |
diagnose |
disaccustom |
doctor |
drain |
dress |
drug |
dry |
dry-cure |
dry-salt |
elixir |
embalm |
embassy |
empowerment |
entrusting |
entrustment |
errand |
evaporate |
executorship |
exequatur |
exsiccate |
factorship |
fire |
first aid |
fix |
fix up |
flux |
freeze |
freeze-dry |
full power |
fume |
get ready |
give care to |
glebe |
governance |
government |
guardianship |
guidance |
hands |
heal |
healing |
healing agent |
healing quality |
help |
hospitalization |
incumbency |
insolate |
irradiate |
jerk |
jurisdiction |
keeping |
kiln |
kipper |
legation |
license |
lieutenancy |
living |
make arrangements |
make preparations |
make ready |
management |
mandate |
marinade |
marinate |
marshal |
massage |
medical treatment |
medicament |
medicamentation |
medicate |
medication |
medicine |
mend |
minister to |
ministry |
mission |
mobilize |
mummify |
nostrum |
nurse |
office |
operate on |
oversight |
panacea |
parch |
pastorage |
pastorate |
pastorship |
patronage |
pharmacon |
physic |
pickle |
plan |
plaster |
plenipotentiary power |
poultice |
power of attorney |
power to act |
prearrange |
prelacy |
prep |
prepare |
prescribe |
prescription |
preservatize |
preserve |
pretreat |
process |
procuration |
protectorship |
provide |
proxy |
pull round |
purge |
purview |
put in shape |
quick-freeze |
ready |
ready up |
receipt |
recipe |
rectify |
rectory |
recure |
refrigerate |
regency |
regentship |
regime |
regimen |
relief |
remedial measure |
remedy |
repair |
responsibility |
restorative |
restore |
restore to health |
rub |
safe hands |
salt |
scorch |
sear |
season |
settle preliminaries |
shrivel |
smoke |
smoke-cure |
soak up |
sovereign remedy |
specific |
specific remedy |
splint |
sponge |
stewardship |
stop |
strap |
stuff |
succor |
sun |
sun-dry |
swab |
tan |
task |
therapy |
torrefy |
towel |
treat |
treatment |
trim |
trust |
trusteeship |
try out |
tutelage |
vicarage |
vicarious authority |
ward |
wardenship |
wardship |
warrant |
watch and ward |
wean |
weazen |
wing |
wipe |
wither |
wizen |
work a cure
See Also | acoustic |
aid |
alleviant |
alleviator |
antidote |
application |
balm |
care for |
counterpoison |
cure-all |
dun |
emetic |
help |
keep |
lenitive |
lotion |
magic bullet |
medicament |
medication |
medicinal drug |
medicine |
nauseant |
nostrum |
ointment |
palliative |
panacea |
preserve |
preventative |
preventive |
prophylactic |
recuperate |
salve |
treat |
treatment |
unction |
unguent |
vomit |
vomitive
Cure In Webster's Dictionary
\Cure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cured} (k?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.
The child was cured from that very hour. --Matt.
xvii. 18.
2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to
remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
To cure this deadly grief. --Shak.
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and
gave them power . . . to cure diseases. --Luke ix.
1.
3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as
from a bad habit.
I never knew any man cured of inattention. --Swift.
4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to
preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or
fish; to cure hay.
\Cure\, v. i.
1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.]
2. To restore health; to effect a cure.
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is
able with the change to kill and cure. --Shak.
3. To become healed.
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
--Shak.
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