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Cure

noun

A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain. Synonyms: curative, remedy, therapeutic.

verb

(past & past part. cured; pres. part. curing)

Provide a cure for, make healthy again. Synonyms: bring around, heal. "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"

Prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve. "Cure pickles" , "Cure hay"

Make (substances) hard and improve their usability. "Cure cement" , "Cure soap"

Be or become preserved.

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"Cure" Quotes from Famous Books

... philosophers have cursed each other black in the face over it for the last five thousand years. But it worried him. The strange and sinister detail of the world, that had always been a horror to his mind, became more horrible beneath the stimulus of futile thought. But whisky was the mighty cure. He was the gentleman who gained notoriety on a memorable occasion by exclaiming, "Metaphysics be damned; let us drink!" Omar and other bards have expressed the same conclusion in more dulcet wise. But Gourlay's was equally sincere. How sincere ...

— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown

... with compassion; and the boy, Thenceforth a frequent visitor, beguiled His father's lingering hours, and brought a balm With his loved presence, that in every wound Dropped healing. But, in this terrific hour, He was a poisoned arrow in the breast Where he had been a cure. ...

— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... pronounced his panegyric before his shrine. He eloquently sets forth how much these sacred relics were honored; and affirms, that no devil could stand their presence, and that men by them found a remedy for their bodlily distempers, and the cure of the evils ...

— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler

... of the devil," said Juan Gonzalvo. "Some medicine he had in his hands—some medicine we could not see. No physician in all Europe has skill to cure by such magic. Is it like that a naked savage should know more than the ...

— The Flute of the Gods • Marah Ellis Ryan

... overhearing her repetition of one of his most inclusive profanities, and her explanation that she meant him to hear it so that he might know how it sounded. The contrast of the lurid blasphemy with her heavenly whiteness should have been enough to cure any one less grounded than he in what must be owned was as fixed a habit as smoking with him. When I first knew him he rarely vented his fury in that sort, and I fancy he was under a promise to her which he kept sacred till the wear ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

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