cure
provide a cure for, make healthy again
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,719 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,118 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- provide a cure for, make healthy again also: bring around, heal The treatment cured the boy's acneThe quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to
- prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve cure meatscure pickles
- make (substances) hard and improve their usability cure resincure cement
- be or become preserved the apricots cure in the sun
noun
- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain also: remedy, curative, therapeutic
cure in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Moslems are keeping together, and Armenians are getting the silence cure.
The Eye of Zeitoon · Talbot Mundy · Chapter 2
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Let them try it; if it don't cure, it can't more than kill them.
Sketches New and Old, Part 7. · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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Words can't cure me; but if you do this thing for me, I shall be satisfied.
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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Since a beneficent doctor first described this cure to the British Medical Association, hundreds have been restored and ultimately reclaimed.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social · James Runciman · Chapter 2
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Had Vincent not laid aside his whip before mounting it for the first time, he probably would never have effected a cure.
With Lee in Virginia · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1