cure

/kjuə/

Thân thiện

The doctor prescribed a cure for the patient's illness.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A medicine or treatment that cures a disease or relieves pain: A substance or method used to restore health or alleviate suffering.
   • The act or process of curing: The course of treatment or the period during which a cure is administered.
   • (Archaic/Formal) Spiritual charge or care: A position of pastoral responsibility, such as a parish.

2. Verb:

   • To make someone healthy again after an illness: To eliminate a disease or medical condition from a person or animal.
   • To solve or eliminate a harmful or undesirable condition: To remedy a problem, bad habit, or negative situation.
   • To preserve food by a chemical or physical process: To treat food (e.g., by salting, smoking, or drying) to prevent spoilage.
   • To harden a material through a chemical process: To process a substance (e.g., resin, cement, rubber) to achieve its final, usable state.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • Scientists are searching for a cure for cancer. (A specific medicine or treatment.)
  • He went to the spa for a three-week cure. (A period of treatment.)
• Verb:
  • This antibiotic can cure the infection. (Make healthy.)
  • Time cured him of his grief. (Eliminated a negative condition.)
  • We will cure the ham in the smokehouse. (Preserve food.)
  • It takes 24 hours for the glue to cure completely. (Harden chemically.)

Advanced Usage

• "To cure someone of something": To cause someone to stop having a bad habit or feeling.
  • The bitter experience cured him of his arrogance.
• "Pastoral cure": (Formal) The spiritual responsibility for a parish.
  • He was appointed to the cure of souls in the village.

Variants and Related Words

• Curable (adj): Able to be cured.
  • Many infections are curable with modern medicine.
• Curative (adj/noun): Having the ability to cure; a curative agent.
  • The spring water was believed to have curative properties.
• Cure-all (n): A supposed remedy for all diseases or problems.
  • There is no magic cure-all for economic issues.

Synonyms

• Noun: Remedy, treatment, medicine, antidote, therapy.
• Verb: Heal, treat, remedy, rectify, preserve, vulcanize (for rubber).

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Cure of: (Formal) To relieve or free someone from something undesirable.
  • The program aims to cure young people of their prejudices.

Related Idioms

• "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.": It is better to stop something bad from happening than to deal with it after it has happened.
  • Installing a smoke detector is wise; remember, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
• "What can't be cured must be endured.": If you cannot fix a problem, you must accept it and live with it.
  • The old injury still hurts sometimes, but what can't be cured must be endured.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

Verb

1. be or become preserved
   • the apricots cure in the sun
2. make (substances) hard and improve their usability
   • cure resin
   • cure cement
   • cure soap
3. prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve
   • cure meats
   • cure pickles
   • cure hay
4. provide a cure for, make healthy again
   • The treatment cured the boy's acne
   • The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to

Từ đồng nghĩa

• remedy
• curative
• therapeutic
• bring around
• heal