cure

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♦ cure /kj'ʊər/ (cures curing cured)
1 [VERB] V n
If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
Her cancer can only be controlled, not cured.
2 [VERB] V n, V n, V n of n
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.
= heal
3 [N-COUNT] oft N for n
A cure for an illness is a medicine or other treatment that cures the illness.
Atkinson has been told rest is the only cure for his ankle injury.
4 [VERB] V n
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...
5 [N-COUNT] usu with supp, oft N for n
A cure for a problem is something that will bring it to an end.
The magic cure for inflation does not exist.
= solution
6 [VERB] V n of n, V n
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.
7 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed, V-ed
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.

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