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Cure

//kjɔː(r)// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
"When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies."
2
An eccentric person. UK, obsolete, slang
"The mud was thick — the crossing clean — / A well dressed man, genteel of mien — / Walked through the first (he might be poor), / The sweeper muttered, "He's a Cure.""
3
a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain wordnet
4
An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
"Past hope! past cure!"
5
A solution to a problem. figuratively
"Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure."

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6
A process of preservation, as by smoking.
7
Cured fish.
"Well into the twentieth century, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia's Grand Banks fleet stayed with sail power. "The Lunenburg cure," heavily salted on the schooners and then dried on flakes along the rocky sheltered coastline, was traded in the Caribbean."
8
A process of solidification or gelling.
9
A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
10
Care, heed, or attention. obsolete
"vicarages of great cure, but small value"
11
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
"This worke devysed is For suche as do amys, And specyally to controule Such as have cure of soule, […] No good priest to offende, But suche dawes to amend, […]"
12
That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.

Verb

1
To restore to health. transitive
"Unaided nature cured him."
2
provide a cure for, make healthy again wordnet
3
To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end. transitive
"Unaided nature cured his ailments."
4
prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve wordnet
5
To cause to be rid of (a defect). transitive
"Experience will cure him of his naïveté."

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6
be or become preserved wordnet
7
To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use. transitive
"The smoke and heat cures the meat."
8
make (substances) hard and improve their usability wordnet
9
To preserve (food), typically by salting.
10
To bring about a cure of any kind. intransitive
11
To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use. intransitive
"The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure."
12
To solidify or gel. intransitive
"The parts were curing in the autoclave."
13
To become healed. intransitive, obsolete
"One desperate grief cures with another's languish."
14
To pay heed; to care; to give attention. obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English cure, borrowed from Old French cure (“care, cure, healing, cure of souls”), from Latin cura (“care, medical attendance, cure”). Displaced native Old English hǣlu, but survived as heal.

Etymology 2

From Middle English curen, from Old French curer, from Latin cūrāre. Partially displaced Old English ġehǣlan, whence Modern English heal.

Etymology 3

From curiosity.

Etymology 4

* As an Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, reduced from McClure. Also compare McIver. * As an English surname, from the noun cure.

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