cure
//kjɔː//
Forms
- Plural
- cures
- present (v1)
- cure
- past (v2)
- cured
- past participle (v3)
- cured
- present participle
- curing
- 3rd person singular
- cures
Definitions
1.A method, device or medication that restores good health.
- Maybe they can help us find a cure.
2.An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
- I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
3.A solution to a problem.
- Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
4.A process of preservation, as by smoking.
- Maybe they can help us find a cure.
1.To restore to health.
2.To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
- Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure.
- Unaided nature cured his ailments.
3.To cause to be rid of (a defect).
- Experience will cure him of his naïveté.
4.To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
- The smoke and heat cures the meat.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4659
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English cure, borrowed from Old French cure (“care, cure, healing, cure of souls”), from Latin cura (“care, medical attendance, cure”).
Displaced native Old English hǣlu, but this survived as heal.