Meaning

A method, device or medication that restores good health..

Definitions by Sense

1. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
2. An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
3. (figurative) A solution to a problem.
4. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
5. Cured fish.
6. A process of solidification or gelling.
7. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
8. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.

Example Sentences

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.

'Cause if there's a cure for this, I don't want it / I don't want it

Past hope! past cure!

I do cures to-day and to-morrow.

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.

Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.

the proper cure of such prejudices

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.

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• cures
• curing
• cured

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