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Words related to cure

Related / Similar Words: remedy, curative, bring around, heal

Definition:

a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain;

provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy''s acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to";

prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles";

be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun";

make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin";

Hyponyms: acoustic, antidote, counterpoison, emetic, vomit, vomitive, nauseant, lenitive, lotion, application, magic bullet, ointment, unction, unguent, balm, salve, palliative, alleviant, alleviator, panacea, nostrum, cure-all, preventive, preventative, prophylactic, recuperate, dun

Entailments: treat, care for

Part Meronyms: treatment

Derivational Morphology: bring around, heal, remedy, relieve, therapist, healer, curative, hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing

Anagrams: ecru

Language Translations:
Chinese: 治療		Dutch: behandeling and genezen
Finnish: parannus and parantaa		French: traitement and traiter
German: Heilung and kurieren		Greek: θεραπεύσει and θεραπεία
Hebrew: לרפא and מרפא		Italian: cura and curare
Japanese: 治療		Korean: 치료
Latin: remedium and sanare		Portuguese: cura and curar
Russian: вылечить and лечение		Spanish: cura and curar
Swedish: bota and kur

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