verb, noun
verb [VN]
1 ~ sb (of sth) to make a person or an animal healthy again after an illness:
Will you be able to cure him, Doctor?
2 to make an illness go away:
TB is a serious illness, but it can be cured.
3 to deal with a problem successfully:
I finally managed to cure the rattling noise in my car.
4 ~ sb of sth to stop sb from behaving in a particular way, especially a way that is bad or annoying
5 to treat food or tobacco with smoke, salt, etc. in order to preserve it
IDIOMS see KILLv.
Part of speech: noun
1 ~ (for sth) a medicine or medical treatment that cures an illness:
the search for a cure for cancer * There is no known cure but the illness can be treated. * The only real cure is rest.
2 the act of curing sb of an illness or the process of being cured:
Doctors cannot effect a cure if the disease has spread too far. * The cure took six weeks.
3 ~ (for sth) something that will solve a problem, improve a bad situation, etc:
a cure for poverty
IDIOMS see PREVENTION
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