English Dictionary

cure

/kjʊə(ɹ)/

noun

A method, device or medication that restores good health. / Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.

There is no cure for the common cold.

意味（1）

A method, device or medication that restores good health.

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 the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

意味（2）

Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.

Past hope! past cure!

意味（3）

(figuratively) A solution to a problem.

Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.

意味（4）

A process of preservation, as by smoking.

意味（5）

A process of solidification or gelling.

意味（6）

(engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.

意味（7）

(obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.

vicarages of great cure, but small value

意味（8）

Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.

This worke devysed is

For suche as do amys,

And specyally to controule

Such as have cure of soule, […]

No good priest to offende,

This worke devysed is For suche as do amys, And specyally to controule Such as have cure of soule, […] No good priest to offende, But suche dawes to amend, […]

意味（9）

That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.