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cure

noun
/kjɔː(r)//kjʊɹ/CA

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.

  1. derived from cura
  2. derived from cure — “care, cure, healing, cure of souls”
  3. inherited from cure

Definitions

  1. A method, device or medication that restores good health.

    • 'Cause if there's a cure for this, I don't want it / I don't want it

  2. An act of healing or state of being healed

    An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.

    • Past hope! past cure!
    • I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
    • A disease among cattle, called the murrain, then prevailed to a very great extent through that district of Yorkshire. The cattle were made to pass through the smoke raised by this miraculous fire, and their cure was looked upon as certain.

  3. A solution to a problem.

    • Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
    • the proper cure of such prejudices
  4. ›+ 19 more definitions

    1. A process of preservation, as by smoking.

    2. Cured fish.

    3. A process of solidification or gelling.

    4. A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure…

      A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.

    5. Care, heed, or attention.

      • vicarages of great cure, but small value

    6. Spiritual charge

      Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.

      • This worke devysed is For suche as do amys, And specyally to controule Such as have cure of soule, […] No good priest to offende, But suche dawes to amend, […]

    7. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.

    8. To restore to health.

      • Unaided nature cured him.
      • “Enough, Yet not enough. A bullet through and through, High in the breast. Nothing but what good care And medicine and rest, and you a week, Can cure me of to go again.” The same Grim giving to do over for them both.

    9. To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.

      • Unaided nature cured his ailments.
      • Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure.

    10. To cause to be rid of (a defect).

      • Experience will cure him of his naïveté.

    11. To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.

      • The smoke and heat cures the meat.

    12. To preserve (food), typically by salting.

    13. To bring about a cure of any kind.

    14. To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.

      • The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.

    15. To solidify or gel.

      • The parts were curing in the autoclave.

    16. To become healed.

      • One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

    17. To pay heed

      To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

    18. An eccentric person.

      • The mud was thick — the crossing clean — / A well dressed man, genteel of mien — / Walked through the first (he might be poor), / The sweeper muttered, "He's a Cure."
      • He’s quite a nice gentleman, though, to be sure, he does look a cure.

    19. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

an ounce of prevention is better than an ounce of cure, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, anti-cure, cure for cancer, cureless, cure time, faith-cure, king-cure, Kneipp's cure, Lunenburg cure, mind cure, overcure, prevention is better than cure, pro-cure, Salisbury's cure, Schroth's cure, Schweninger's cure, sun cure, sweetcure, take the cure, the cure is worse than the disease, undercure, water cure, Wiltshire cure, miscure, curability, cure-all, curebie, cure cancer, cure down, curer, cure up, dry-cure, fire-cure, incurable, outcure, precure, uncure

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cure. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01cure02health03balance04harmonise05standard06falling07verbal08substance09physical10medicine

A definitional loop anchored at cure. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at cure

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA