cure
/kjʊɹ/noun, verb1 syllable
Cure means: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain.
Synonyms for cure8
noun, as in a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
verb, as in provide a cure for, make healthy again
What does cure mean?5
noun
1
a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
verb
1
provide a cure for, make healthy again“The treatment cured the boy's acne”
2
prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve“cure meats”
3
make (substances) hard and improve their usability“cure resin”
4
be or become preserved“the apricots cure in the sun”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with cure?24
two syllables
Cure in a sentence
- No cure for the common cold exists, but the symptoms can be treated.WestofEden
- Receive a cure from a doctor, learn from a wise man.AlanF_US
- Receive a cure from a doctor, knowledge from a wise man.AlanF_US
- Sometimes, the cure is worse than the disease.Hybrid
- No cure was possible, despite the abatement of symptoms.Lisandro586
- As of yet, there is no method that can reliably cure all tumors.mailohilohi
- You think that you can cure yourself, don't you?CK
- You think you can cure yourself, don't you?CK
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of cure
as a noun
- plural
- cures
as a verb
- past tense
- cured
- present participle
- curing
- third-person singular
- cures
- past participle
- cured