cure

1. 1.

   a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

   Synonymsremedycurativetherapeutic

   Broadermedicine

   Narroweracousticantidoteemeticlenitivelotionmagic bulletointmentpalliativepanaceapreventive

   Part oftreatment

Other forms of cure

plural

cures·

past tense

cured·

present participle

curing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cure

What does cure mean?

cure means "provide a cure for, make healthy again". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cure?

cure has 1 syllable: cure. In IPA it is /ˈkjʊɹ/.

What is another word for cure?

Close synonyms include bring around, heal, remedy, curative, therapeutic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cure a common word?

cure is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cure?

3 words rhyme with cure. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.