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To make healthy. A medicine or medical treatment that makes an illness go away. Also: to process something for storage.

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Usage examples (18)
  • The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
  • cure meats
  • The apricots cure in the sun
  • cure resin
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  • A "cure" is a remedy for an ailment, a "cure" is a parish priest, while a "curie" is a unit of radiation.
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