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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

remedy, curative, therapeutic

verb, as in provide a cure for, make healthy again

bring around, heal

also used for cure

mithridate, treacle, curacy

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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

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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