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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary cure
ETYMOLOGY Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin cura, cure of souls, from Latin, care DATE 14th century 1. a. spiritual charge : care b. pastoral charge of a parish 2. a. recovery or relief from a disease b. something (as a drug or treatment) that cures a disease c. a course or period of treatment take the cure for alcoholism d. spa 13. a complete or permanent solution or remedy seeking a cure for unemployment 4. a process or method of curing
verb (cured ; cur·ing) DATE 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to restore to health, soundness, or normality cure a patient of his illness b. to bring about recovery from cure a disease 2. a. to deal with in a way that eliminates or rectifies his small size, which time would cure for him — William Faulkner b. to free from something objectionable or harmful trying to cure him of a bad habit 3. to prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use fish cured with salt intransitive verb 1. a. to undergo a curing process b. set 112. to effect a cure • cur·er noun English Etymology cure c.1300, from L. cura "care, concern, trouble," from PIE base *kois- "be concerned." In reference to fish, pork, etc., first recorded 1743. Related: Curable (late 14c.). Cure-all in general sense is from 1870; as a name of various plants, it is attested from 1793. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 ☞ cure cure / kjuE(r); NAmE kjur / verb[VN] 1. ~ sb (of sth) to make a person or an animal healthy again after an illness 治瘉,治好(病人或动物): Will you be able to cure him, Doctor? 医生,你能把他治好吗？ 2. to make an illness go away 治好(疾病): TB is a serious illness, but it can be cured. 肺结核虽然是一种严重的疾病,但可治瘉。 3. to deal with a problem successfully 解决,了结(问题): I finally managed to cure the rattling noise in my car. 我最终设法解决了我汽车发出的格格响声。 4. ~ sb of sth to stop sb from behaving in a particular way, especially a way that is bad or annoying 矫正,改正(某人的不良行为) 5. to treat food or tobacco with smoke, salt, etc. in order to preserve it (用熏、腌等方法)加工贮藏(食物或烟草) IDIOMS ⇨ see kill v. noun1. ~ (for sth) a medicine or medical treatment that cures an illness 药；药物；疗法: the search for a cure for cancer 对癌症治疗方法的研究 There is no known cure but the illness can be treated. 这种病尚没有确切的治瘉方法,但可以医治。 2. the act of curing sb of an illness or the process of being cured 治疗；疗程: Doctors cannot effect a cure if the disease has spread too far. 假如这种疾病已扩散得厉害,医生也无法妙手回春。 The cure took six weeks. 此疗程花了六个星期。 3. ~ (for sth) something that will solve a problem, improve a bad situation, etc. (解决问题、改善糟糕情况等的)措施,对策: a cure for poverty 解决贫穷问题的措施 see prevention Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English cure verb ADV. completely | miraculously She still believed that somehow she could be miraculously cured. PREP. of He was now completely cured of his illness. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus-11th Edition n. Function: noun 1 Synonyms: REMEDY 1, medicament, medicant, medication, medicine, pharmacon, physic 2 Synonyms: REMEDY 2, antidote, corrective, counteractant, counteractive, counteragent, countermeasure, counterstepn. Function: verb to rectify an unhealthy or undesirable condition FF1C;aspirin curedhis headacheFF1E; Synonyms: heal, remedy Related Words: doctor, medicate; restore; ameliorate, better, improve Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged See curé Search result show the entry is found in: mind cure , or open cure , or rest cure , or soft-cure , or steam cure , or sun-cure , or water cure , or cold cure , or cure-all , or dry-cure , or faith cure , or fire-cure , or five-year cure , or flue-cure , or gold cure , or grape curecure I. \ˈkyu̇(ə)r, -u̇ə\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English (also, care), from Old French, from Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin cura cure of souls, from Latin, care, medical attendance, healing; akin to Old Latin coiraveront they cared for, Paelignian coisatens, and perhaps to Gothic ushaista needy 1. a. : spiritual charge of a parish : the office of a parish priest or of a curate b. : curacy , parish 2. a. obsolete : a medical course of treatment for a bodily ailment — used without implication of success b. : recovery from a disease < his cure was complete > also : remission of signs or symptoms of a disease < clinical cure > especially during a prolonged period of observation < 5-year cure of cancer > : return to freedom from an infecting agent < biologic cure of typhoid > — compare arrest , quiescence , remission c. : a drug, treatment, regimen, or other agency that cures a disease < water cure > < quinine is a cure for malaria > d. : a course or period of treatment; especially : one designed to interrupt an addiction or compulsive habit < take a cure for alcoholism > or to improve general health < an annual cure at a spa > e. : spa < one of the fashionable cures > 3. : remedy : a procedure or agency that heals or permanently alleviates a troublesome or harmful situation < the attractively plausible idea that the cure for negative attitudes and misinformation is information — W.H.Whyte > 4. : a process or method involving aging, seasoning, washing, drying, heating, smoking, or otherwise treating whereby a product is preserved, perfected, or readied for use 5. maritime law : the medical care awarded a merchant seaman injured or taken sick in the course of his duties Synonyms: see remedy II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English curen to take care of, heal, from Middle French curer to take care of, heal, cleanse, from Latin curare to take care of, heal, from cura, n. transitive verb 1. : heal a. : to restore to health, soundness, or normality < cure him of his illness > < curing his patients rapidly by new procedures > < a child cured of lisping > b. : to bring about recovery from : remedy < any physician can cure a clean wound > < antibiotics cure many formerly intractable infections > 2. a. : to treat so as to remove, eliminate, or rectify < every fact you learn cures ignorance or confusion — J.M.Barzun > < no amount of sweeping and clean mats could cure the bedbugs > b. : to free or relieve (a person) from an objectionable or harmful condition or inclination < the loss cured him of his gambling > < a rebuff that cured him of his brash aggressiveness > 3. : to subject to a preservative process < cure meat by salting > < drying the hay to cure it > < curing tobacco by aging it > : perfect by chemical change (as rubber by vulcanizing, plastics by treating with heat or chemicals to make them infusible and insoluble, or green concrete by maintaining proper conditions of moisture and temperature) 4. : to clear (land) for cultivation or other use 5. : to make acceptable in legal procedure (the appearance of objectionable evidence, the omission of relevant matter, or supposed error in charging the jury) by admission of certain evidence giving charges considered under the law to nullify any effect prejudicial to the appellant that any defective evidence or charges might have intransitive verb 1. of a product : to undergo a preservative process 2. a. : to effect a cure < careful living cures more often than it kills > b. : to take a cure (as in a sanatorium or at a spa) Synonyms: heal , remedy : cure and heal may apply, literally and often interchangeably, to wounds or diseases < mind and will are so powerful they can heal the sick — C.A.Dial > cure , however, more commonly applies to restoration of a healthy or normal condition of body or organism < cure a headache > < cure a cold > heal commonly applies to restoration to soundness of an affected part after a wound or lesion < heal an open sore > < heal a cut in the hand > Figuratively, one cures a bad condition of things, but heals a breach as in human relations < cure him of his faults — Douglas Stewart > < went far toward curing the cynicism of youth — Dixon Wecter > < half a century's estrangement between the farmers and the townsmen may yet be healed — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > < heal a split in his own Liberal Party — Time > remedy applies to the use of any means of correction or relief of a morbid or evil condition < remedy the common cold > < anxieties would be remedied — J.A.Pike > < remedy the breakdown of international prestige — Max Ascoli > < the theory that better religion, better houses, or larger prisons can remedy the badly functioning brain — Atlantic > |
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