cure
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: cures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: curing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A method, device or medication that restores good health.
pos: noun
examples: When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
'Cause if there's a cure for this, I don't want it / I don't want it
gloss: An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A solution to a problem.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
the proper cure of such prejudices
gloss: A process of preservation, as by smoking.
pos: noun
gloss: Cured fish.
pos: noun
examples: Well into the twentieth century, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia's Grand Banks fleet stayed with sail power. "The Lunenburg cure," heavily salted on the schooners and then dried on flakes along the rocky sheltered coastline, was traded in the Caribbean.
gloss: A process of solidification or gelling.
pos: noun
gloss: A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
pos: noun
gloss: Care, heed, or attention.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: vicarages of great cure, but small value
gloss: Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
pos: noun
examples: 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, […]
[T]he Appropriator was the incumbent Parſon, and had the Cure of the Souls of the Pariſhioners, and that upon the Preſentation of the Appropriation, or upon the Diſſolution of the Abbey, the Church became void, and preſentative, as other Churches upon Reſignation, or Death of the Incumbent.
During this interval, my thoughts were employed on some future means of supporting them; and at last a small Cure of fifteen pounds a year was offered me in a distant neighbourhood, where I could still enjoy my principles without molestation.
gloss: That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
pos: noun
gloss: To restore to health.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Unaided nature cured his ailments.
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure.
Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.
gloss: To cause to be rid of (a defect).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Experience will cure him of his naïveté.
gloss: To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The smoke and heat cures the meat.
gloss: To preserve (food), typically by salting.
pos: verb
gloss: To bring about a cure of any kind.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.
gloss: To solidify or gel.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The parts were curing in the autoclave.
gloss: To become healed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
gloss: To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
Related words: curate
curative
curator
pedicure
recure
sinecure
Derived words: 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
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