cure

  • 51cure — Synonyms and related words: administration, advowson, agency, agentship, aid, air dry, alterative, ameliorate, analeptic, anhydrate, antidote, arrange, assignment, assistance, auspices, authority, authorization, bake, balm, balsam, bandage, bathe …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 52cure — [13] The Latin noun cūra ‘care’ has fathered a wide range of English words. On their introduction to English, via Old French, both the noun and the verb cure denoted ‘looking after’, but it was not long before the specific sense ‘medical care’… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 53cure — 1. verb 1) after a long course of treatment, he was cured Syn: heal, restore to health, make well/better; archaic cleanse 2) economic equality cannot cure all social ills Syn: rectify, remedy, put/set right, right, fix, mend, repair …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 54cure — [[t]kyʊər[/t]] n. v. cured, cur•ing 1) med a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy 2) med a method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease 3) med successful remedial treatment; restoration to health 4) a means of correcting or… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 55cure — [13] The Latin noun cūra ‘care’ has fathered a wide range of English words. On their introduction to English, via Old French, both the noun and the verb cure denoted ‘looking after’, but it was not long before the specific sense ‘medical care’… …

    Word origins

  • 56curé — I. Un curé d une Paroisse, Curio, curionis, Flamen curialis. Le curé a dit la Messe, A curione res diuina facta est. II. Curé et purgé, Purgatus …

    Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • 57cure — The act of healing; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury. Under rule that a vessel and her owner must provide maintenance and cure for seaman injured or falling ill while in service, cure is care, including nursing and …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 58cure — The act of healing; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury. Under rule that a vessel and her owner must provide maintenance and cure for seaman injured or falling ill while in service, cure is care, including nursing and …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 59cure — v. & n. v. 1 tr. (often foll. by of) restore (a person or animal) to health (was cured of pleurisy). 2 tr. eliminate (a disease, evil, etc.). 3 tr. preserve (meat, fruit, tobacco, or skins) by salting, drying, etc. 4 tr. a vulcanize (rubber). b… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 60Cure — This unusual and interesting name has three possible origins. The first of these is an Anglo Saxon locational name, from any one of the places in Somerset so called from the river Curry , on which they stand, the etymology of the river name is… …

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