cure

Meaning

Noun

1. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
2. An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
3. A solution to a problem.
4. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
5. Cured fish.
6. A process of solidification or gelling.
7. A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
8. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
9. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
10. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.

Verb

1. To restore to health.
2. To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
3. To cause to be rid of (a defect).
4. To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
5. To preserve (food), typically by salting.
6. To bring about a cure of any kind.
7. To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
8. To solidify or gel.
9. (obsolete) To become healed.
10. (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

Synonyms

heal

remedy

treat

treatment

recover

healing

medicine

💊

therapy

care for

care

restore to health

convalesce

repair

relieve

make well

recuperate

recovery

doctor

🧑‍⚕️

smoke

pickle

drug

💊

correct

get well

medication

become healthy

preserve

medical treatment

cool

🆒

improve

tan

salt

🧂

keep

remove

bring around

nurse

curative

ripen

mature

reform

better

medicament

medicate

set right

bake

medicinal drug

attend to

deal

restore

amend

fix

therapeutic

build

corn

🌽

revive

allay

reconcile

harden

disposal

aid

handle

souse

make good

conserve

manage

marinade

medical science

melioration

mend

mind

minister

mitigate

mummify

negotiate

nurture

pacify

parson

pastor

penance

petrify

pharmaceutical

physic

poison

polish

🇵🇱

prescription

priest

proceeding

process

punish

quench

rectify

rectorship

redeem

redress

refine

refinement

reformation

regime

regimen

remediation

rescue

resource

restorative

review

ripeness

salve

save

season

settle

soothe

straighten

sweetening

take care of

temper

tend

tending

tend to

therapeutics

trade

transact

transaction

treating

turn around

upgrade

vet

vicar

vicarage

vulcanise

vulcanization

weld

work

deal in

have dealings

make right

set up again

become better

therapeutic medication

camphorate

culture

management

massage

💆

nursing

be curable

treat medically

feel better

give medicine

have a treatment

make ripe

care delivery

remediate

make healthy

get well +

administration

raise to life

age

alive

alleviate

ameliorate

amelioration

antidote

arrange

associate

assuage

attend

attention

be

become

betterment

bloat

bring round

call

callous

carry on

case

change

clear up

clergyman

consolidate

corrective

crank

curacy

curé

cured

curing

deal with

decorate

discuss

disinfect

dispose

dispose of

dry

easing

eccentric

emendation

enhance

enhancement

enrich

expiate

falsify

ferment

fertilizer

fix up

fold

free from

go

handling

healthy

⚕️

help

improvement

incumbent

intervention

keeping

kipper

look after

maintain

make better

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kjʊə/

Etymology

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.