rest-cure

1. 1.

   rest as a medical treatment for stress or anxiety etc.

   Broadertreatment

Questions about rest-cure

What does rest-cure mean?

rest-cure means "rest as a medical treatment for stress or anxiety etc.".

How many syllables are in rest-cure?

rest-cure has 2 syllables: rest--cure. The stress falls on "rest-".

Is rest-cure a common word?

rest-cure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.