v.
- make healthy again after suffering from a disease or medical condition.
▸end (a disease, condition, or problem) by treatment or remedial action.
- preserve (meat, fish, tobacco, or an animal skin) by salting, drying, or smoking.
- harden (rubber, plastic, concrete, etc.) after manufacture by a chemical process such as vulcanization.
n.
- a substance, treatment, or remedy that cures a disease, condition, or problem.
▸restoration to health.
- the process of curing meat, fish, rubber, etc.
- a Christian minister's pastoral charge or area of responsibility for spiritual ministry.
▸a parish.
Derivative
- curability n.
- curable adj.
- curer n.
Etymology
ME (in the senses ‘care, concern, responsibility’): from OFr. curer (v.), cure (n.), both from L. curare ‘take care of’, from cura ‘care’.