query | If doctors or medical treatments c___ an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear .If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear . An operation finally cured his shin injury. Her cancer can only be controlled, not cured. |
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word | cure |
full-definition | verb If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear . An operation finally cured his shin injury. Her cancer can only be controlled, not cured. If doctors or medical treatments cure a person, they make the person well again after an illness or injury. MDT is an effective treatment and could cure all the leprosy sufferers worldwide. Almost overnight I was cured. Now doctors believe they have cured him of the disease. If someone or something cures a problem, they bring it to an end. Private firms are willing to make large-scale investments to help cure Russia's economic troubles. We need to cure our environmental problems. If an action or event cures someone of a habit or an attitude, it makes them stop having it. The experience was a detestable ordeal, and it cured him of any ambitions to direct again. He went to a clinic to cure his drinking and overeating. When food, tobacco, or animal skin is cured, it is dried, smoked, or salted so that it will last for a long time. Legs of pork were cured and smoked over the fire. ...sliced cured ham. noun A cure for an illness is a medicine or other treatment that cures the illness. There is still no cure for a cold. Atkinson has been told rest is the only cure for his ankle injury. A cure for a problem is something that will bring it to an end. Punishment can never be an effective cure for acute social problems. The magic cure for inflation does not exist. |
inflections | curescuringcured |
cefr-level | B2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2
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