cure
/kjʊɹ/ verb B2- To restore to health. · Unaided nature cured him.
- To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end. · Unaided nature cured his ailments.
- To cause to be rid of (a defect). · Experience will cure him of his naïveté.
- To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use. · The smoke and heat cures the meat.· Spanish ham is air-cured.
- To preserve (food), typically by salting.
- To bring about a cure of any kind.
- To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use. · The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.
- To solidify or gel. · The parts were curing in the autoclave.
He/she/it cures · Past cured · Past participle cured · -ing form curing
Verb forms
- Base form
- cure
- He/she/it
- cures
- Past
- cured
- Past participle
- cured
- -ing form
- curing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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If you wish to see me the king’s attorney, you must desire for me some of those violent and dangerous diseases from the cure of which so much honor redounds to the physician.”
He knocked at the door and inquired of the inmates how they all did, saying that if they were ill, he would be happy to prescribe for them and cure them.
AN OLD WOMAN having lost the use of her eyes, called in a Physician to heal them, and made this bargain with him in the presence of witnesses: that if he should cure her blindness, he should receive from her a sum of money; but if her infirmity remained, she should give him nothing.
I on the contrary affirm that I am still blind; for when I lost the use of my eyes, I saw in my house various chattels and valuable goods: but now, though he swears I am cured of my blindness, I am not able to see a single thing in it.”
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