cure
/kjʊɹ/ noun B1- A method, device or medication that restores good health.
- An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
- A solution to a problem.
- A process of preservation, as by smoking.
- Cured fish.
- A process of solidification or gelling.
- A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
- Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
Plural cures
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’ll cure you of imagining ghosts into places.
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