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1. Provide a cure for, make healthy again
   "The treatment cured the boy's acne"
   - bring around, heal
    
2. Prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve
   "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"
    
3. Make (substances) hard and improve their usability
   "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"
    
4. Be or become preserved
   "the apricots cure in the sun"

1. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
   - remedy, curative, therapeutic

Derived forms: cured, curing, cures

See also: curable, curative, curing

Type of: aid, change, harden, help, indurate, keep, medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine, preserve

Part of: intervention, treatment

Encyclopedia: Cure