Cure Meaning
/kjɔː(r)/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA method, device or medication that restores good health.
nounAn act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
Sentence Examples
The doctor can cure your son of the disease.
There is no cure for the common cold.
The search for a cure for cancer
CEFR Practice Quiz
Scientists announced a promising ____ for the previously incurable virus.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The doctor can ____ your son of the disease.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English cure, borrowed from Old French cure (“care, cure, healing, cure of souls”), from Latin cura (“care, medical attendance, cure”). Displaced native Old English hǣlu, but this survived as heal.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
"'Cause if there's a cure for this, I don't want it / I don't want it"
— 1976, Marilyn McLeod, Pamela Sawyer, “Love Hangover”, performed by Diana Ross:
"Past hope! past cure!"
— c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
"I do cures to-day and to-morrow."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 13:32:
"A disease among cattle, called the murrain, then prevailed to a very great extent through that district of Yorkshire. The cattle were made to pass through the smoke raised by this miraculous fire, and their cure was looked upon as certain."
— 1892, Michael Aislaibie Denham, The Denham Tracts, volume 2, page 50:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Scientists announced a promising ____ for the previously incurable virus.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The doctor can ____ your son of the disease.