cure

1. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain (synset 104081594)
   is a type of: medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine - (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
   subtypes:

   • acoustic - a remedy for hearing loss or deafness
   • antidote, counterpoison - a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison
   • emetic, nauseant, vomit, vomitive - a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting
   • lenitive - remedy that eases pain and discomfort
   • application, lotion - liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin
   • magic bullet - a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease
   • balm, ointment, salve, unction, unguent - semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
   • alleviant, alleviator, palliative - remedy that alleviates pain without curing
   • catholicon, cure-all, nostrum, panacea - hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists
   • preventative, preventive, prophylactic - remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
   is a part of: intervention, treatment - care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
   same as: curative, remedy, therapeutic

1. Provide a cure for, make healthy again (synset 200081478)
   "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
   referred to in: medicine, practice of medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
   entail: care for, treat - provide treatment for
   is a type of: aid, help - improve the condition of
   subtypes: recuperate - restore to good health or strength
   same as: bring around, heal
2. Prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve (synset 200528652)
   "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"
   is a type of: keep, preserve - prevent (food) from rotting
   subtypes: dun - cure by salting
   verb group: cure - be or become preserved
3. Make (substances) hard and improve their usability (synset 200529015)
   "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"
   is a type of: harden, indurate - become hard or harder
4. Be or become preserved (synset 200528881)
   "the apricots cure in the sun"
   is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
   verb group: cure - prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve

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