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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

Singular cure

Plural cures

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
    • The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. Spelman.

Verb

Infinitive to cure

Third person singular cures

Simple past cured

Past participle cured

Present participle curing

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

  1. to restore to good health
  2. to relieve from a disease or its ill effects
  3. to preserve a food or other product such as tobacco
Synonyms
Translations
Translations
  • Chinese: 治療, 治疗
  • Dutch: genezen nl(nl)
  • Finnish: parantaa fi(fi), hoitaa fi(fi)
  • French: traiter fr(fr)
  • German: kurieren
  • Greek: θεραπεύω el(el)
  • Hebrew: לרפא (lerape')
  • Italian: curare it(it)
  • Lao: ແກ້ (keeh)
  • Latin: sānāre la(la)
  • Portuguese: curar, curar-se
  • Russian: вылечить (vilechit')
  • Spanish: curar es(es)
  • Swedish: bota, kurera
  • Turkish: tedavi etmek, iyileştirmek

Related terms

Related terms

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

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.

 

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