Definition of cure

"cure" in the noun sense

1. remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic

a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

"cure" in the verb sense

1. bring around, cure, heal

provide a cure for, make healthy again

"The treatment cured the boy's acne"

"The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"

2. cure

prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve

"cure meats"

"cure pickles"

"cure hay"

3. cure

make (substances) hard and improve their usability

"cure resin"

"cure cement"

"cure soap"

4. cure

be or become preserved

"the apricots cure in the sun"

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Quotations for cure

Care's no cure. [ Proverb ]

No herb will cure love. [ Proverb ]

Fancy may kill or cure. [ Proverb ]

Surgeons cut that they may cure. [ Proverb ]

A gold ring does not cure a felon. [ Proverb ]

The only cure for grief is action. [ George Henry Lewes ]

A crown is no cure for the headache. [ Proverb ]

Spiders that kill a man cure an ape. [ Proverb ]

Who pays the physician does the cure. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The world goes whispering to its own,
This anguish pierces to the bone;
And tender friends go sighing round,
What love can ever cure this wound?
My days go on, my days go on. [ E. B. Browning ]

Prevention is much preferable to cure. [ Proverb ]

The cure may be worse than the disease. [ Proverb ]

The wise for cure on exercise depend:
God never made His work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]

O, he's a limb, that has but a disease;
Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy. [ William Shakespeare ]

None can cure their harms by wailing them. [ William Shakespeare ]

Quartane agues kill old men and cure young. [ Proverb ]

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles. [ Cervantes ]

Man yields to custom as he bows to fate.
In all things ruled - mind, body and estate;
In pain or sickness, we for cure apply
To them we know not, and we know not why. [ Crabbe ]

Man yields to custom as he bows to fate,
In all things ruled--mind, body, and estate;
In pain, in sickness, we for cure apply
To them we know not, and we know not why. [ Crabbe ]

These grains of gold are not grains of wheat!
These bars of silver thou canst not eat;
These jewels and pearls and precious stones
Cannot cure the aches in thy bones,
Nor keep the feet of death one hour
From climbing the stairways of thy tower. [ Longfellow ]

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering. [ Alfred de Musset ]

Better to hunt in fields for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise for cure on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.
Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure
For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them. [ Sir Henry Taylor ]

He that bewails himself hath the cure in his hands. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wealth and honour can never cure a wounded conscience. [ Proverb ]

Vice is its own punishment, and sometimes its own cure. [ Proverb ]

That sort of tympani which requires nine months for cure. [ Proverb ]

It is not good to come near the plague, though to cure it. [ Proverb ]

Wickedness is its own punishment, and many times its own cure. [ Proverb ]

Human reason may cure illusions, but it cannot cure sufferings. [ A. de Musset ]

That sick man is not to be pitied who hath his cure in his sleeve. [ Proverb ]

O, I cry your mercy; There is my purse, to cure that blow of thine. [ William Shakespeare ]

What can we not endure. When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure? [ Nabb ]

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else. [ H. W. Shaw ]

It is as natural a thing for means to cure, as it is for fire to burn. [ Proverb ]

Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings. [ Landor ]

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive for things that are not to be remedied. [ William Shakespeare ]

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones. [ Rochefoucauld ]

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. [ Dr. .Johnson ]

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own. [ Cicero ]

Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it. [ Lingrie ]

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure senses but the soul. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Leisure for men of business, and business for men of leisure, would cure many complaints. [ Mrs. Thrale ]

There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. [ Ovid ]

You give medicine to a sick man, he hands you your fee; you cure his complaint, he cures yours. [ To a doctor ]

Cure oneself as far as possible of a trick common to almost every one, of using four or five adjectives before a noun. [ Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, English novelist and early feminist, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

There is only one cure for public distress, and that is public education, directed to make men thoughtful, merciful, and just. [ John Ruskin ]

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years. [ George Eliot ]

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure. [ Chapin ]

O, be sick, great greatness, and bid thy ceremony give thee cure! Thinkest thou the fiery fever will go out with titles blown from adulation? [ William Shakespeare ]

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure. [ Emerson ]

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. [ Colton ]

We derive from nature no fault that may not become a virtue, no virtue that may not degenerate into a fault. Faults of the latter kind are most difficult to cure. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due contemplation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty. [ Boyle ]

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. [ Charron ]

The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches. [ Whately ]

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it: it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it. [ Fielding ]

Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers. [ Alcott ]

The powers of music are felt or known by all men, and are allowed to work strangely upon the mind and the body, the passions and the blood; to raise joy and grief; to give pleasure and pain; to cure diseases, and the mortal sting of the tarantula; to give motions to the feet as well as the heart; to compose disturbed thoughts; to assist and heighten devotion itself. [ Sir W. Temple ]

An inoffensive pleasantness is a good quality to improve friendship. It enlivens conversation, relieves melancholy, and conveys advice with better success than naked reprehension. This gilding the pill reconciles the palate to the prescription, without weakening the force of the ingredients, and he who can cure by recreation, and make pleasure the vehicle of health, is a doctor in good earnest. [ R. Hall ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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Word Growth involving cure

Shorter words in cure

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Longer words containing cure

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