cure

[Cure]

A cure is a treatment that ends an illness or makes you feel better. There is no cure for the common cold, or for a broken heart. Waaaaa.

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Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.]

Of study took he most cure and most heed.
Vicarages of greatcure, but small value.
2.

Noun
a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

Verb
provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy''s acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"

Verb
prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"

Verb
be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"

Verb
make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"

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n.
Care, heed, or attention.

n.
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.

n.
Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.

n.
Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.

n.
Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.

v. t.
To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.

v. t.
To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.

v. t.
To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.

v. t.
To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.

v. i.
To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

v. i.
To restore health; to effect a cure.

v. i.
To become healed.

n.
A curate; a pardon.


Cure

Cure> (kr), n. [OF, cure care, F., also, cure, healing, cure of souls, L. cura care, medical attendance, cure; perh. akin to cavere to pay heed, E. cution. Cure is not related to care.] 1. Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.]
Of study took he most cure and most heed.
Vicarages of greatcure, but small value.
2. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.
The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure. 4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
Past hope! pastcure! past help.
I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
The proper cure of such prejudices.

Cure

Cure, v. t. [imp.& p.p. Cured (k?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curing.] [OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr. cura. See Cure,.] 1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
The child was cured from that very hour.
2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
To cure this deadly grief.
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases.
3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
I never knew any man cured of inattention.
4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.

Cure

Cure, v. i. 1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.] 2. To restore health; to effect a cure.
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure.
3. To become healed.
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.]

Of study took he most cure and most heed.
Vicarages of greatcure, but small value.
2.

To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.

To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

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Usage Examples

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.

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Other Usage Examples

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Absence - that common cure of love.

But love's a malady without a cure.

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

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