cure

Pronunciation

Verb

Plain form
cure

Third-person singular
cures

Past tense
cured

Past participle
cured

Present participle
curing

Category:VerbsCategory:Regular verbs
  1. (transitive)Category:Transitive verbs If you cure something that is wrong, you fix or solve it.
    Time and honest feedback usually cure the problem by teaching the poor leader a better way of achieving goals.
    The treatment mostly cured her of the cancer.
  2. If you cure a piece of meat, you preserve it by salting.

Noun

Singular
cure

Plural
cures

Category:Nouns
  1. (countable)Category:Countable nouns A cure is something that will fix something that is wrong.
    We still have no cure for the common cold.
    I think I have a cure for the problem.
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