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cure English

Meaning cure meaning

What does cure mean?
Definitions in simple English

cure Verb

— If you cure something that is wrong, you fix or solve it. Time and honest feedback usually cure the problem by teaching the poor leader a better way of achieving goals. The treatment mostly cured her of the cancer.

cure Noun

— A cure is something that will fix something that is wrong. We still have no cure for the common cold. I think I have a cure for the problem.

cure

— verb (= heal) provide a cure for, make healthy again The treatment cured the boy's acne The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to — noun a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain — verb prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve cure meats cure pickles cure hay — verb be or become preserved the apricots cure in the sun — verb make (substances) hard and improve their usability cure resin cure cement cure soap

Synonyms cure synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as cure?

cure English » English

heal remedy treat treatment recover healing medicine therapy care for care restore to health repair relieve recuperate recovery make well doctor convalesce smoke pickle drug correct preserve medication medical treatment improve get well cool become healthy tan salt remove nurse keep bring around therapeutic souse set right ripen revive restore reform reconcile medicinal drug medicate medicament mature make good harden handle

Topics cure topics

What do people use cure to talk about?
Person Healthy

Treat disease
States Quality Good Decay

Preserve
Work and occupation Occupation Crafts

Working with leather

Conjugation cure conjugation

How do you conjugate cure?

cure · verb

Examples cure examples

How do I use cure in a sentence?

Simple sentences

What helps cure a cough?
I am sure that Tom will find a cure for that disease.
The doctor can cure your son of the disease.
There was no doctor who could cure her illness.
The clever doctor could cure many illnesses.
The clever doctor was able to cure the Prime Minister's illness.
This medicine will cure you of your skin disease.
The medicine will cure your headache.
This medicine will cure your cold.
This medicine will cure you of your cold.
At present it is medically impossible to cure this disease.
Prevention is better than cure.
It'll cure itself naturally.
No medicine can cure folly.
No medicine can cure this disease.
It will cure you of your headache in no time.
This medicine will cure your headache immediately.
This medicine will cure you of that disease.
We can cure some types of cancer.
That doctor may cure him of his cancer.
I hope that some scientist will soon discover a cure for AIDS.

Movie subtitles

Why? Some people in his tribe believe that having sex with a virgin will cure their AIDS.
The story that I have been told is that the way to cure AIDS is by sleeping with a virgin!
He gave you a Band-Aid, not a cure.
Once this bad boy gets going, it's gonna chill your milk, preserve your meat, call your sister, cure hepatitis.
See, my roommates and I are launching this hangover cure, and, uh, we were in the middle of a very important business meeting.
What if a cure is found before then or a better test?
I want you to know it's going to cure you.
Well, the cure is said to take three or four months.
He'll cure you.
They can cure anything these days.
He'll know just what's the matter with you, and cure you.
But, by trying to cure themselves, the Hurdanos sometimes die.
However, the cure for our predicament is discipline.
But I thought you said the Mariphasa was a cure.
We now know it spreads through water. We'll find a cure.
If you cure her, he'll shower you with gifts.
May Allah cure you.
You got a cure for lesbian?
To find a cure for the Plague, Faust spent day and night in prayer with God.
It's a vicious circle, my friends, and the only place to cure it is right here at the source.
We'll find a great doctor. He'll cure you.
It's for us to cure him - Kemp and I.
No. I'm sorry, Mrs Hardy. A voyage to Honolulu is the only cure for your husband.
But better times will cure these things.
Found a cure for death and taxes?
Science doesn't have a cure for cancer yet, but the supernatural does.
I'll cure him.
I wouldn't imagine you would cure me.
Cure yourself, I recommend it.
I will be waiting for you, cure yourself.
Oh, we'll cure that, won't we?

News and current affairs

A Cure for Fiscal Failure?
The fall of Milosevic does not cure the political woes of the Balkans; indeed, it raises their urgency.
BEIJING: China has now finished celebrating the 50th anniversary of Mao's revolution, but the hangover cure that so many people in the West have been urging upon the country -- a healthy dose of devaluation -- is unlikely to be swallowed.
The IMF's first effort at prescribing a cure may be flawed, but its diagnosis of a financial sector bloated by moral hazard is manifestly correct.
Unfortunately, however, most international efforts have sought to ameliorate the symptoms rather than cure the underlying disease.
This understanding means that the cure for the current dysfunction will be found at the ballot box rather than in the streets.
The central human character, Will Rodman (played by James Franco), is a scientist seeking a cure for Alzheimer's disease who experiments on apes.
This, unfortunately, is what has been lost in the debate about Europe of late: However loud and aggressive the anti-austerity movement becomes, there still will be no simple Keynesian cure for the single currency's debt and growth woes.
Unfortunately, the world is at a point where it can see the danger from terrorism but not the cure.
Worse still, a cure may not exist.
To try to cure it by spending less is like trying to cure a sick person by bleeding.
The cure, such as it was, finally came about, years behind schedule, not through fiscal bleeding, but by massive monetary stimulus.
The moral of the tale is simple: Austerity in a slump does not work, for the reason that the medieval cure of bleeding a patient never worked: it enfeebles instead of strengthening.
But fiscal sustainability is no cure for Greece's chronically large trade deficit.
But any cure would have to be administered before the plaques form, and years before symptoms of dementia appear.
Without its own currency, the only cure for a chronic trade deficit is real wage reductions or relative productivity increases.
Looking at the five-year survival rates for children with ALL from the 1970's through the 1990's, one sees an almost linear improvement in cure rates.
But virtually all of the drugs that we use today to cure children with cancer were discovered and approved in the 1950's and 1960's.
With selective intensification, cure rates began to increase steadily.
So petrodollars exacerbate poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, not cure it.
What especially bugs my critics is the idea that cutting carbon is a cure that is worse than the disease - or, to put it in economic terms, that it would cost far more than the problem it is meant to solve.
It is a reality that men infected with HIV or AIDS in some parts of Africa have even raped girls believing that sex with virgins is a cure.
But rarely does this knowledge allow us to control outcomes - prevention rather than cure.

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