curé /kūˈrā/

A parish priest in France

cure¹ /kūr/

1. That which heals
2. A remedy, or course of remedial treatment
3. A means of improving a situation
4. A course or method of preserving or arresting decomposition
5. The total quantity cured
6. Treatment by which a product is finished or made ready for use
7. Care of the sick
8. An act of healing
9. Care of souls or spiritual charge

1. To heal or make better
2. To eliminate (an illness, harmful habit, etc)
3. To preserve by drying, salting, etc
4. To finish by means of chemical change, eg to vulcanize (a rubber), or to use heat or chemicals in the last stage of preparing (a thermosetting plastic)

To undergo a process or course of curing

cūrabilˈity noun

cūrˈable adjective

cūrˈableness noun

cūrˈative adjective

Tending to cure (also cūrˈatory)

A substance that cures

cūrˈatively adverb

cūreˈless adjective

That cannot be cured

cūrˈer noun

cūreˈ-all noun

A panacea

cure² /kūr/ (slang)

An odd or queer person

• medicine woman
• medicine women
• medicining
• medick
• medicks
• medico
• medico-
• medico-chirurgical
• medico-legal
• medicos
• medics
• medieval
• medievalism
• medievalisms
• medievalist
• medievalists
• Medieval Latin
• medievally
• medieval modes
• medii
• medina
• medinas
• medio-
• mediocracies
• mediocracy