curar

Meaning

  1. (also, ambitransitive, archaic, pronominal) to care, heed, study, strive, seek, work
  2. (also, ambitransitive, pronominal) to cure, heal (body, soul, mind, heart); nurse, treat, dress (a wound)
  3. to remedy (an evil)
  4. to clean, cleanse
  5. to prepare
  6. to cure, salt, smoke
  7. to ripen
  8. to dress, tan (animal hides)
  9. to season, dry (wood)
  10. to bleach (linen)
  11. to intoxicate, make drunk
  12. (reflexive) to get drunk
  13. to think
  14. (Mexico, colloquial, reflexive) to laugh, to burst out laughing

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
cu‧rar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kuˈɾaɾ/
Etymology

From Latin cūrāre.

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