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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English cure , borrowed from Old French cure ( “ care, cure, healing, cure of souls ” ) , from Latin cura ( “ care, medical attendance, cure ” ) . Displaced native Old English hǣlu , but survived as heal .
Noun
cure (plural cures )
A method , device or medication that restores good health .
Synonyms: curative , mithridate , treacle
1913 , Joseph C Lincoln , chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients , New York, N.Y., London: D Appleton and Company , →OCLC :When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
1976 , Marilyn McLeod, Pamela Sawyer (lyrics and music), “Love Hangover ”, performed by Diana Ross :'Cause if there's a cure for this, I don't want it / I don't want it
An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease , or to soundness after injury .
c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , :Past hope! past cure !
1892 , Michael Aislaibie Denham, The Denham Tracts , volume 2, page 50 :A disease among cattle, called the murrain, then prevailed to a very great extent through that district of Yorkshire. The cattle were made to pass through the smoke raised by this miraculous fire, and their cure was looked upon as certain.
( figurative ) A solution to a problem .
1700 , Dryden , “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books. ”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; , London: Jacob Tonson , , →OCLC :Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure .
1763 , Richard Hurd , On the Uses of Foreign Travel :the proper cure of such prejudices
A process of preservation , as by smoking .
Cured fish.
1997 , Mark Kurlansky, Cod , page 128 :Well into the twentieth century, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia's Grand Banks fleet stayed with sail power. "The Lunenburg cure ," heavily salted on the schooners and then dried on flakes along the rocky sheltered coastline, was traded in the Caribbean.
A process of solidification or gelling .
( engineering ) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering .
( obsolete ) Care, heed, or attention.
1655 , Thomas Fuller , The Church-history of Britain; , London: Iohn Williams , →OCLC , (please specify |book=I to XI) :vicarages of great cure , but small value
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate .
c. 1503–1512 , John Skelton , Ware the Hauke ; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems , 1983 , →OCLC , page 61 , lines 1–4, 25–26 :This worke devysed is For suche as do amys, And specyally to controule Such as have cure of soule, [ …] No good priest to offende, But suche dawes to amend, [ …]
1704 , Clem Spelman, “To the Reader”, in Henry Spelman , De Non Temerandis Ecclesiis, Churches Not to Be Violated. A Tract of the Rights and Respects Due unto Churches. , 6th edition, London: Awnsham and John Churchill , ; republished in Two Tracts , London: Awnsham and John Churchill , , 1704 , →OCLC , page 4 :he Appropriator was the incumbent Parſon, and had the Cure of the Souls of the Pariſhioners, and that upon the Preſentation of the Appropriation, or upon the Diſſolution of the Abbey, the Church became void, and preſentative, as other Churches upon Reſignation, or Death of the Incumbent.
1766 , [Oliver Goldsmith ], chapter III, in The Vicar of Wakefield: , volume (please specify |volume=I or II) , Salisbury, Wiltshire: B. Collins, for F Newbery , , →OCLC :During this interval, my thoughts were employed on some future means of supporting them; and at last a small Cure of fifteen pounds a year was offered me in a distant neighbourhood, where I could still enjoy my principles without molestation.
That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
Synonym: curacy
Derived terms
Translations
method, device or medication that restores good health
Arabic: شِفَاء m ( šifāʔ )
Egyptian Arabic: علاج m ( ʔelāg ) ، ثرابي m ( ṯerābi )
Armenian: բուժում (hy) ( bužum ) , բժշկում (hy) ( bžškum ) , դեղ (hy) ( deġ ) , դեղամիջոց (hy) ( deġamiǰocʻ )
Bashkir: дауа ( dawa )
Bengali: ওষুধ (bn) ( ōśudh ) , ঔষধ (bn) ( ōuśodh ) , দাওয়াই (bn) ( daōẇai ) , এলাজ (bn) ( elaj ) , শাফা (bn) ( śapha )
Bulgarian: лече́ние (bg) n ( lečénie ) , лека́рство (bg) n ( lekárstvo ) ( medical drug, medicine )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 治療 / 治疗 (zh) ( zhìliáo )
Czech: léčba (cs) f , lék (cs) m
Dutch: remedie (nl) f
Esperanto: kuraco
Estonian: ravi (et) , kuur
Finnish: hoito (fi) , lääkekuuri (fi) , kuuri (fi)
French: traitement (fr) m
Georgian: მკურნალობა ( mḳurnaloba ) , წამალი (ka) ( c̣amali )
German: Heilung (de) f
Greek: θεραπεία (el) f ( therapeía )
Ancient: ἴασις f ( íasis )
Hebrew: מַרְפֵּא m ( marpé )
Hungarian: gyógymód (hu) , kezelés (hu) , kúra (hu) , gyógyír (hu)
Irish: leigheas m
Italian: cura (it) f
Japanese: 治療 (ja) ( ちりょう, chiryō )
Korean: 치료(治療) (ko) ( chiryo )
Latin: remedium (la) n
Maori: rongoā
Norman: dgéthithon
Old English: hǣlu f
Ottoman Turkish: چاره ( çare ) , علاج ( ʿilac ) , درمان ( derman )
Persian: درمان (fa) ( darmân )
Portuguese: cura (pt) f
Romagnol: cùra f
Romanian: tratament (ro)
Russian: лече́ние (ru) n ( lečénije ) , лека́рство (ru) n ( lekárstvo ) ( medical drug, medicine )
Spanish: cura (es) f , curación (es) f , remedio (es) m
Swedish: kur (sv) c
Tagalog: lunas (tl) , gamot (tl)
Turkish: tedavi (tr) , ( method, device - kür ) kür (tr) , ilaç (tr) ( medical drug, medicine ) , deva (tr) ( natural remedies etc )
Welsh: iachâd m
act of healing or state of being healed
process of solidification or gelling
Etymology 2
From Middle English curen , from Old French curer , from Latin cūrāre . Partially displaced Old English ġehǣlan , whence Modern English heal .
Verb
cure (third-person singular simple present cures , present participle curing , simple past and past participle cured )
( transitive ) To restore to health .
Synonym: heal
Unaided nature cured him.
1923 October, Robert Frost, “ Not to Keep.”, in New Hampshire , New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company , →OCLC , page 97 :“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.
( transitive ) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
Unaided nature cured his ailments.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare , “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , :Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure .
2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders ”, in The Economist , volume 407 , number 8841 , page 76 :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 ) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
Experience will cure him of his naïveté.
( transitive ) To prepare or alter , especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
The smoke and heat cures the meat.
To preserve (food), typically by salting .
( intransitive ) To bring about a cure of any kind.
( intransitive ) To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use .
The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure .
( intransitive ) To solidify or gel .
The parts were curing in the autoclave.
( obsolete , intransitive ) To become healed.
c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , :One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
( obsolete ) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
Derived terms
Translations
to restore to health
Albanian: shëroj (sq) , kuroj (sq)
Arabic: شَفَى ( šafā )
Armenian: բուժել (hy) ( bužel ) , բժշկել (hy) ( bžškel )
Belarusian: лячы́ць impf ( ljačýcʹ ) , вы́лечыць pf ( výlječycʹ )
Bulgarian: леку́вам (bg) impf ( lekúvam ) , излеку́вам (bg) pf ( izlekúvam ) , церя́ (bg) impf ( cerjá ) , изцеря́вам (bg) pf ( izcerjávam )
Burmese: ကု (my) ( ku. ) , ကုသ (my) ( ku.sa. )
Catalan: curar (ca) , guarir (ca)
Cherokee: ᎧᏅᏫᎠ ( kanvwia )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 治療 / 治疗 (zh) ( zhìliáo )
Czech: léčit (cs) impf , vyléčit (cs) pf , uzdravit pf
Dutch: genezen (nl) , helen (nl)
Esperanto: kuraci (eo)
Finnish: parantaa (fi) , hoitaa (fi)
French: soigner (fr) , guérir (fr)
Galician: curar (gl) , sandar , saar (gl) , sarar
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: kurieren (de) , heilen (de)
Greek: θεραπεύω (el) ( therapévo )
Ancient: ἰάομαι ( iáomai )
Hebrew: ריפא \ רִפֵּא ( ripé )
Hindi: इलाज करना ( ilāj karnā ) , उपचार करना ( upcār karnā )
Hungarian: meggyógyít (hu) , kigyógyít (hu) , kikúrál (hu)
Ido: risanigar (io)
Italian: curare (it)
Japanese: 治す (ja) ( なおす, naosu ) , 癒す (ja) ( いやす, iyasu ) , 治療する (ja) ( ちりょうする, chiryō suru )
Khmer: បន្សះ (km) ( bɑnsah ) , ផ្សះ (km) ( phsah )
Korean: 치료하다 (ko) ( chiryohada ) , 고치다 (ko) ( gochida )
Ladino: melezinar , sanar
Lao: ແກ້ (lo) ( kǣ )
Latin: sano (la) , medeor (la) , curo (la) , medico (la)
Luxembourgish: kuréieren , heelen
Macedonian: лечи impf ( leči ) , излечи pf ( izleči ) , лекува impf ( lekuva ) , излекува pf ( izlekuva )
Manchu: ᡩᠠᠰᠠᠮᠪᡳ ( dasambi )
Middle English: helen , warysshen
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Norman: dgéthi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: helbrede (no)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: лѣчити impf ( lěčiti )
Old English: ġehǣlan
Oromo: fayyisuu
Polish: leczyć (pl) impf , wyleczyć (pl) pf , uzdrawiać (pl) impf , uzdrowić (pl) pf
Portuguese: curar (pt) , sanar (pt)
Quechua: hampiy
Romanian: vindeca (ro) , însănătoși (ro) , tămădui (ro)
Russian: лечи́ть (ru) impf ( lečítʹ ) , вы́лечить (ru) pf ( výlečitʹ ) , излечи́ть (ru) pf ( izlečítʹ ) , исцеля́ть (ru) impf ( isceljátʹ ) , исцели́ть (ru) pf ( iscelítʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ле́чити impf , лије́чити impf , изле́чити pf , лије́чити impf , излије́чити pf , це́лити impf , исце́лити pf , ције́лити impf , исције́лити pf , исцељи́вати impf , исцјељи́вати impf
Roman: léčiti (sh) impf , liječiti (sh) impf , izléčiti (sh) pf , izlijéčiti pf , céliti (sh) impf , iscéliti pf , cijéliti (sh) impf , iscijéliti (sh) pf , isceljívati (sh) impf , iscjeljívati (sh) impf
Slovak: liečiť impf , vyliečiť pf
Slovene: zdraviti impf , ozdraviti pf , pozdraviti (sl) pf
Spanish: curar (es)
Swedish: bota (sv) , kurera (sv)
Thai: รักษา (th) ( rák-sǎa ) , เยียวยา (th) ( yiao-yaa )
Tibetan: དྲག་པ་བཟོས ( drag pa bzos )
Turkish: tedavi etmek (tr) , iyileştirmek (tr) , sağaltmak (tr)
Ukrainian: лікува́ти impf ( likuváty ) , виліко́вувати impf ( vylikóvuvaty ) , ви́лікувати pf ( výlikuvaty ) , зцілюва́ти impf ( zciljuváty ) , зціли́ти pf ( zcilýty )
Urdu: علاج کرنا ( 'ilāj karnā )
Vietnamese: chữa (vi) , chữa bệnh (vi)
Yucatec Maya: ts'aak
to bring (a disease) to an end
to cause to be rid of (a defect)
to prepare for keeping or use
Bulgarian: консервирам (bg) ( konserviram )
Dutch: conserveren (nl)
Finnish: kypsyttää (fi)
German: haltbar machen , trocknen (de) , räuchern (de) , pökeln (de)
Hungarian: füstöl (hu) , érlel (hu) , pácol (hu) , eltesz (hu) , aszal (hu) , szárít (hu) , tartósít (hu)
Irish: leasaigh
Maori: wāmu , whakapaoa ( by smoking over a fire )
Russian: консерви́ровать (ru) impf ( konservírovatʹ ) , законсерви́ровать (ru) pf ( zakonservírovatʹ ) , вя́лить (ru) impf ( vjálitʹ ) , провя́лить (ru) pf ( provjálitʹ ) ( dry-cure )
Scottish Gaelic: saill
Spanish: curar (es)
to preserve food, typically by salting
to undergo a process for preservation or use
Etymology 3
From curiosity .
Noun
cure (plural cures )
( UK , slang , obsolete ) An eccentric person.
1855 , Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch (volumes 29-32, page 201)
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 ."
References
John Camden Hotten (1873 ) The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French cure , from Old French cure , from Latin cūra , from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- ( “ to heed ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
cure f (plural cures )
( archaic ) care , concern
( obsolete ) healing , recovery
( medicine ) treatment ; cure
( religion ) vicarage , presbytery
Derived terms
Verb
cure
inflection of curer :
first / third-person singular present indicative / subjunctive
second-person singular imperative
Further reading
Anagrams
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin cūra .
Noun
cure f (plural curis )
treatment
cure
Galician
Verb
cure
inflection of curar :
first / third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative
Italian
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈku.re/
Rhymes: -ure
Hyphenation: cù‧re
Noun
cure f
plural of cura
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
cure
Alternative form of curre
1387–1400 , Geoffrey Chaucer , “The Clerke of Oxenfordes Prologue ”, in The Canterbury Tales , ,
→OCLC ; republished in [
William Thynne ], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542 ,
→OCLC :
Etymology 2
Noun
cure
Alternative form of quyrre ( “ quarry ” )
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French cure .
Noun
cure f (plural cures )
desire
Descendants
Old English
Pronunciation
Verb
cure
inflection of ċēosan :
second-person singular preterite indicative
singular preterite subjunctive
Old French
Etymology
From Latin cūra .
Noun
cure oblique singular , f (oblique plural cures , nominative singular cure , nominative plural cures )
medical attention
worry
desire
Descendants
→ Middle Dutch: cure
→ Middle English: cure
Middle French: cure
References
Godefroy, Frédéric , Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX e au XV e siècle (1881) (cure )
Portuguese
Verb
cure
inflection of curar :
first / third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative
Romanian
Etymology
Probably derived from Latin cōlāre ( “ to filter, strain ” ) as well as Latin currere , from Proto-Italic *korzō , from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- . Mostly replaced by the modified variant form curge .
Verb
a cure (third-person singular present curge , past participle curs ) 3rd conjugation
( archaic ) to run
Synonyms: alerga , fugi
( archaic ) to flow
Synonym: curge
( archaic ) to drain
Synonym: scurge
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
cure (Cyrillic spelling цуре )
inflection of cura :
genitive singular
nominative / accusative / vocative plural
Spanish
Verb
cure
inflection of curar :
first / third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative