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Cure Definition

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English

Etymology

From Old French, cure (“care, cure, healing, cure of souls”), from Latin cura (“care, medical attendance, cure”)

Pronunciation

Noun

cure (plural cures)

  1. a method, device or medication that restores good health
  2. a solution to a problem
  3. a process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering
  4. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
  5. 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
    • (Can we date this quote?) Spelman:
      The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.

Verb

cure (third-person singular simple present cures, present participle curing, simple past and past participle cured)

  1. to restore to good health; to relieve from a disease or its ill effects
  2. to preserve a food or other product such as tobacco
Synonyms
Translations
to restore to good health
  • Italian: curare it(it)
  • Lao: ແກ້ (keeh)
  • Latin: sānāre la(la)
  • Portuguese: curar, curar-se
  • Romanian: vindeca ro(ro), însănătoși ro(ro), tămădui ro(ro)
  • Russian: лечить ru(ru) (lečít') impf., вылечить ru(ru) (výlečit') pf.
  • Spanish: curar es(es)
  • Swedish: bota sv(sv), kurera sv(sv)
  • Turkish: tedavi etmek tr(tr), iyileştirmek tr(tr)
to preserve a food or other product
  • Bulgarian: консервирам bg(bg)
  • German: haltbar machen de(de), trocknen de(de), räuchern de(de), pökeln de(de)

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French

Etymology

Latin cura.

Pronunciation

Noun

cure f. (plural cures)

  1. (archaic) care, concern
  2. (obsolete) healing, recovery
  3. (medicine) treatment; cure
  4. (religion) vicarage, presbytery

Verb

cure

  1. first-person singular present indicative of curer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of curer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
  5. second-person singular imperative of curer

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

cure

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of curar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of curar

Italian

Noun

cure f.

  1. Plural form of cura.

Anagrams

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin currere, present active infinitive of currō.

Verb

a cure (third-person singular present cure, past participle curs) 3rd conj.

  1. (archaic) to run
  2. (archaic) to flow
  3. (archaic) to drain

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Spanish

Verb

cure (infinitive curar)

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of curar.
  2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of curar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of curar.

 

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