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

1. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieves pain
   "The new antibiotic proved to be an effective cure for the infection";
   - remedy, curative, therapeutic

Derived forms: curing, cures, cured

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

Part of: intervention, treatment

Encyclopedia: Cure, Joseph