OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11805

cure

/kjɔː(r)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cura • curación • remedio
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
'Cause if there's a cure for this, I don't want it / I don't want it
When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings…
curado
A process of preservation, as by smoking.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 11806

cure

/kjɔː(r)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
curar
To restore to health.
Unaided nature cured him.
“Enough, Yet not enough. A bullet through and through, High in the breast. Nothing but what good care And medicine and rest, and you a week, Can cure me of to go again.” The same G…
curar
To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
Unaided nature cured his ailments.
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure.
curar • curtir
To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
The smoke and heat cures the meat.
salar
To preserve (food), typically by salting.
curar • curtirse
To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.