cure

1. (transitive) To restore to health.Examples: "Unaided nature cured him."; "“Enough, Yet not enough. A bullet through and through, High in the breast. Nothing but what good care And medicine and rest, and you a week, Can cure me of to go again.” The same Grim giving to do over for them both."Synonyms: healtransitive

2. (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.Examples: "Unaided nature cured his ailments."; "Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure."; "Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you."transitive

3. (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).Examples: "Experience will cure him of his naïveté."transitive

4. (transitive) To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.Examples: "The smoke and heat cures the meat."transitive

5. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.intransitive

6. (intransitive) To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.Examples: "The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure."intransitive

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) An eccentric person.Examples: "The mud was thick — the crossing clean — / A well dressed man, genteel of mien — / Walked through the first (he might be poor), / The sweeper muttered, "He's a Cure.""UKobsoleteslang