cure

cure is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Care, heed, or attention. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Care, heed, or attention.
2. noun. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.
3. noun. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
4. noun. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
5. noun. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
6. transitive verb. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
7. transitive verb. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
8. transitive verb. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
9. transitive verb. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
10. intransitive verb. To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
11. intransitive verb. To restore health; to effect a cure.
12. intransitive verb. To become healed.
13. noun. A curate; a pardon.
14. noun. a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

    Synonyms: curative, remedy, therapeutic

15. verb. provide a cure for, make healthy again

    "The treatment cured the boy's acne"

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

    Synonyms: heal

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

    "cure meats"

    "cure pickles"

17. verb. be or become preserved

    "the apricots cure in the sun"

18. verb. make (substances) hard and improve their usability

    "cure resin"

    "cure cement"

Synonyms

curative, remedy, therapeutic, heal

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cure:

ecru, eruc

Common word forms

cured, curer, cures, curing, cureless

Words from these letters

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