cure

A method, device or medication that restores good health.

• '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.

• Past hope! past cure!
• I do cures to-day and to-morrow.

A solution to a problem.figuratively

• Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
• the proper cure of such prejudices

A process of preservation, as by smoking.

Cured fish.

• 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 Caribb

A process of solidification or gelling.

A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.

Care, heed, or attention.obsolete

• vicarages of great cure, but small value

Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.

• 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, […]

That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.

To restore to health.transitive

• Unaided nature cured him.

To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.transitive

• Unaided nature cured his ailments.

To cause to be rid of (a defect).transitive

• Experience will cure him of his naïveté.

To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.transitive

• The smoke and heat cures the meat.
• Spanish ham is air-cured.

To preserve (food), typically by salting.

To bring about a cure of any kind.intransitive

To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.intransitive

• The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.

To solidify or gel.intransitive

• The parts were curing in the autoclave.

To become healed.intransitiveobsolete

• One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

To pay heed; to care; to give attention.obsolete

An eccentric person.UKobsoleteslang

• 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."
• He’s quite a nice gentleman, though, to be sure, he does look a cure.