cure
/kjʊɹ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.32 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
noun
An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
noun
A process of preservation, as by smoking.
noun
A process of solidification or gelling.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "'Cause if there's a cure for this, I don't want it / I don't want it"
- "Past hope! past cure!"
- "I do cures to-day and to-morrow."
- "A disease among cattle, called the murrain, then prevailed to a very great extent through that district of Yorkshire. The cattle were made to pass through the smoke raised by this miraculous fire, and their cure was looked upon as certain."
- "Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure."
Etymology
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Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kjʊɹ/