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noun
1.
a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
2.
a method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease.
3.
successful remedial treatment; restoration to health.
4.
a means of correcting or relieving anything that is troublesome or detrimental:
to seek a cure for inflation.
5.
the act or a method of preserving meat, fish, etc., by smoking, salting, or the like.
6.
spiritual or religious charge of the people in a certain district.
7.
the office or district of a curate or parish priest.
verb (used with object), cured, curing.
8.
to restore to health.
9.
to relieve or rid of something detrimental, as an illness or a bad habit.
10.
to prepare (meat, fish, etc.) for preservation by salting, drying, etc.
11.
to promote hardening of (fresh concrete or mortar), as by keeping it damp.
12.
to process (rubber, tobacco, etc.) as by fermentation or aging.
verb (used without object), cured, curing.
13.
to effect a cure.
14.
to become cured.
verb
1.
(transitive) to get rid of (an ailment, fault, or problem); heal
2.
(transitive) to restore to health or good condition
3.
(intransitive) to bring about a cure
4.
(transitive) to preserve (meat, fish, etc) by salting, smoking, etc
5.
(transitive)

to treat or finish (a substance) by chemical or physical means
to vulcanize (rubber)
to allow (a polymer) to set often using heat or pressure

6.
(transitive) to assist the hardening of (concrete, mortar, etc) by keeping it moist
noun
7.
a return to health, esp after specific treatment
8.
any course of medical therapy, esp one proved effective in combating a disease
9.
a means of restoring health or improving a condition, situation, etc
10.
the spiritual and pastoral charge of a parish: the cure of souls
11.
a process or method of preserving meat, fish, etc, by salting, pickling, or smoking
noun
1.
a parish priest in France

cure (kyur)
n.

Restoration of health; recovery from disease.

A method or course of treatment used to restore health.

An agent that restores health; a remedy.

v. cured, cur·ing, cures

To restore a person to health.

To effect a recovery from a disease or disorder.

cure

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