Cure

From Old French, cure ("care, cure, healing, cure of souls"), from Latin cura ("care, medical attendance, cure")

Full definition of cure

(plural cures)

1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 5, When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.

A process of preservation, as by smoking.
A process of solidification or gelling.
(engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
(obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.

unknown date SpelmanThe appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.

That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.

William ShakespeareWhose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,
Is able with the change to kill and cure.
2013-06-22, Snakes and ladders, Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.

Unaided nature cured his ailments.
(transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
Experience will cure him of his naïveté.
(transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
The smoke and heat cures the meat.
(intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
(intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.
(intransitive) To solidify or gel.
The parts were curing in the autoclave.
(obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.