cure
 cure (kyo͝or)n.
1. Restoration of health; recovery from disease.
2. A method or course of medical treatment used to restore health.
3. An agent, such as a drug, that restores health; a remedy.
4. Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation:
The cats proved to be a good cure for our mouse problem.
5. Ecclesiastical. Spiritual charge or care, as of a priest for a congregation.
6. The office or duties of a curate.
7. The act or process of preserving a product.v. cured, cur·ing, curesv. tr.
1. To restore to health.
2. To effect a recovery from:
cure a cold.
3. To remove or remedy (something harmful or disturbing):
cure an evil.
4. To preserve (meat, for example), as by salting, smoking, or aging.
5. To prepare, preserve, or finish (a substance) by a chemical or physical process.
6. To vulcanize (rubber).v. intr.
1. To effect a cure or recovery:
a medicine that cures.
2. To be prepared, preserved, or finished by a chemical or physical process:
hams curing in the smokehouse. [Middle English, from Old French, medical treatment, from Latin cūra, from Archaic Latin coisa-.] curʹer n.cureʹless adj.
Synonyms: cure, heal, remedy
These verbs mean to set right an undesirable or unhealthy condition: cure an ailing economy; heal a wounded spirit; remedy a structural defect.
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