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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

... 'Past cure: he has the thing he cried for, spoilt boy as he was from his birth. I tell you truth, m' Aminta, I grieve to lose him. What with his airs of the foreign-tinted, punctilious courtly gentleman covering a survival ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... men of spirit? the men of action? the upright, downright men, that Heaven sends to cure us of our disingenuousness? Where are the heroes and the wits?" (an infinitesimal yawn); "where are the real men? And where are the women to whom such men can do homage without degrading themselves? ...

— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade

... he puts out a lighted cigar-end before he chews it, by dipping it into the water-pan; and that he may, therefore, by long and steady calculations about the conveniences of virtue and inconveniences of vice, gradually cure himself and his children of those evil passions which are defined as 'the works of the flesh,' and rise to the supremest heights of justice, benevolence, and purity? We, who have been brought up in an older, and as we were taught to think, a more rational ...

— At Last • Charles Kingsley

... said: "To each Athene and Apollo give some gift, and each is worthy in his place; but to this child they have given an honour beyond all honours, to cure ...

— Myths That Every Child Should Know - A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People • Various

... probably have been an act of the truest friendship, to have bid him burn his tablets, forswear poetry for ever, and regard himself as forbidden the temptations of the maids of Parnassus. But I should have broken his heart. I took the simpler but more effectual cure—I bade him find out this idol, and marry her. Before I forget him and his sorrows, let me mention, that he took my advice, and that, on my return to the Continent some years after, I found the ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various

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