1. a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
2. provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy''s acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
3. prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"
4. be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
5. make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"

Similar Words: remedy, curative, bring around, heal

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