cure

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Restoration of health; recovery from disease.
2. n. A method or course of medical treatment used to restore health.
3. n. An agent, such as a drug, that restores health; a remedy.
4. n. Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation: The cats proved to be a good cure for our mouse problem.
5. n. Ecclesiastical Spiritual charge or care, as of a priest for a congregation.
6. n. The office or duties of a curate.
7. n. The act or process of preserving a product.
8. v. To restore to health.
9. v. To effect a recovery from: cure a cold.
10. v. To remove or remedy (something harmful or disturbing): cure an evil.
11. v. To preserve (meat, for example), as by salting, smoking, or aging.
12. v. To prepare, preserve, or finish (a substance) by a chemical or physical process.
13. v. To vulcanize (rubber).
14. v. To effect a cure or recovery: a medicine that cures.
15. v. To be prepared, preserved, or finished by a chemical or physical process: hams curing in the smokehouse.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Care; concern; oversight; charge.
2. n. Specifically Spiritual charge; the employment or office of a curate or parish priest; curacy: as, the cure of souls (see below): ordinarily confined in use to the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches.
3. n. The successful remedial treatment of a disease; the restoration of a sick person to health: as, to effect a cure.
4. n. A method or course of remedial treatment for disease, whether successful or not: as, the water-cure.
5. n. A remedy for disease; a means of curing disease; that which heals: as, a cure for toothache.
6. To take care of; care for.
7. To restore to health or to a sound state; heal or make well: as, he was cured of a wound, or of a fever.
8. To remove or put an end to by remedial means; heal, as a disease; remedy, as an evil of any kind; remove, as something objectionable.
9. To prepare for preservation by drying, salting, etc.: as, to cure hay; to cure fish or beef.
10. To care; take care; be careful.
11. To effect a cure.
12. To become well; be cured.
13. n. That which is cured (see cure, v. 4); a product preserved by drying, salting, etc.; a catch of fish so treated.

Wiktionary

1. n. a method, device or medication that restores good health
2. n. a solution to a problem
3. n. a process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering
4. n. Care, heed, or attention.
5. n. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy
6. v. to restore to good health; to relieve from a disease or its ill effects
7. v. to preserve a food or other product such as tobacco

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Care, heed, or attention.
2. n. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.
3. n. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment.
4. n. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
5. n. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
6. v. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
7. v. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
8. v. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
9. v. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc..
10. v. To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
11. v. To restore health; to effect a cure.
12. v. To become healed.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
2. v. be or become preserved
3. v. prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve
4. v. provide a cure for, make healthy again
5. v. make (substances) hard and improve their usability