verb
- Provide a cure for, make healthy again.
- usage: "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
- synonyms: bring around, cure, heal
- Prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve.
- usage: "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"
- synonyms: cure
- Make (substances) hard and improve their usability.
- usage: "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"
- synonyms: cure
- Be or become preserved.
- usage: "the apricots cure in the sun"
- synonyms: cure
adjective
- Freed from illness or injury."the patient appears cured"; "the incision is healed"; "appears to be entirely recovered"; "when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium- Normon Cameron
- Used of rubber. ( treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity))
- synonyms: vulcanized, vulcanised
- Used of concrete or mortar. ( kept moist to assist the hardening)
- Used of hay e. G.. ( allowed to dry)
- Used especially of meat. ( cured in brine)
- synonyms: corned
- Used of tobacco. ( aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable)).
- synonyms: aged
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