cure
Nouns
- (n) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain curative, therapeutic, remedy,
Verbs
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(v) provide a cure for, make healthy again
- The treatment cured the boy's acne
- The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to
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(v) prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve
- cure meats
- cure pickles
- cure hay
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(v) make (substances) hard and improve their usability
- cure resin
- cure cement
- cure soap
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(v) be or become preserved
- the apricots cure in the sun