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Definition of cure :
Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; - so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp ( 1821- 97), a German priest.
Synonyms:
recruit, healing agent, retrieve, regain, be cured _or_ healed, therapeutic, repossess, redress, bring to, bring round, physic, medicament, curative, countermeasure, bring around, reanimate, remediation, recover, health, better, nostrum, bring back, be restored, resume
relief (part of speech: noun)
mercy, mildness, aid, appeasement, easement, alleviation, help, consolation, assuagement, remedy, comfort, respite, solace, relief
heal (part of speech: verb)
rehabilitate, make well, restore, revive, invigorate, recuperate, heal, convalesce
relieve (part of speech: verb)
assuage, console, appease, alleviate, ease, relieve, lull
remedy (part of speech: noun)
elixir, medicine, pharmaceutical, correction, lotion, tonic, potion, corrective, balm, ointment, therapy, dose, emetic, antidote, drug, prescription, pill, salve, medication, germicide
restore (part of speech: verb)
mend, darn, reconstitute, overhaul, recondition, rejuvenate, fix, improve, renovate
Usage examples:
- Nothing will cure him. - "The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- Why can't we cure you!" - "Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School", Margaret Penrose.
- I don't see any possible cure except Socialism, and I'm going to join the party." - "Comrade Yetta", Albert Edwards.