Noun | 1. | cure - a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain |
Verb | 1. | cure - provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to" Synonyms: bring around, heal |
2. | cure - prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles" | |
3. | cure - make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin" | |
4. | cure - be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun" |
CURE. A restoration to health.
2. A person who had quitted the habit of drunkenness for the space of
nine months, in consequence of medicines he had taken, and who had lost his
appetite for ardent spirits, was held to have been cured. 7 Yerg. R. 146.
3. In a figurative sense, to cure is to remedy any defect; as, an
informal statement of the plaintiff's cause of action in his declaration is
cured by verdict, provided it be substantially stated.