| cure | a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain |
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| cure | provide a cure for, make healthy again |
| cure | prepare by chemical processing in order to preserve |
| cure | hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases |
| cure | (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable) |
| cure | (used especially of meat) cured in brine |
| cure | (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry |
| cure | (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening |
| cure | (used of rubber, e.g.) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) |
| cure | freed from illness or injury |
| cure | a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity |
| cure | surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette |