CURE
\kjˈʊ͡ə], \kjˈʊə], \k_j_ˈʊə]\
Definitions of CURE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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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prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"
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be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
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make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"
By Princeton University
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Care, heed, or attention.
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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.
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Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
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Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
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Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
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To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
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To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
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To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
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To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
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To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
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To restore health; to effect a cure.
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To become healed.
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A curate; a pardon.
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Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; - so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest.
By Oddity Software
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Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; - so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest.
By Noah Webster.
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The act, or art, of healing; a remedy; spiritual charge.
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To heal; restore to health; set free from; proserve by salting.
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In France, a Roman Catholic parish priest.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Care of souls or spiritual charge: care of the sick: act of healing: that which heals: a remedy.
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To heal: to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.:-pr.p. curing; pa.p. cured.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To restore to health; cause recovery.
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To eradicate, as disease; heal.
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To preserve, as fish, by salting and drying.
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A restoration to health.
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That which restores health.
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Spiritual care; a curacy; as, the cure of souls.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A restoration to health; also, a remedy; a restorative.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A course of medical or surgical treatment.
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A remedy or a course of treatment capable of producing recovery.
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Restoration to health, or the return to a normal state after disease.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] Act of healing; medical treatment of disease or hurt;—that which heals; remedy; restorative;—successful treatment; restoration of health or soundness;—the office of a curate; charge of souls; spiritual charge.
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n. [French] A curate; a parson.
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