Usually means: Elimination or significant reduction of disease.
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We found 57 dictionaries that define the word cure:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. cure: Merriam-Webster
  2. cure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cure, cure: Wordnik
  7. cure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cure, cure: Wiktionary
  9. cure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cur'e, cure: Dictionary.com
  13. cure: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cure (disambiguation), Cure (film), Cure (religion), Cure, The Cure (Fantastic Four), The Cure (Fringe), The Cure (Jah Cure album), The Cure (Keith Jarrett album), The Cure (Lady Gaga song), The Cure (Saw Doctors album), The Cure (TV series), The Cure (The Cure album), The Cure (X-Men), The Cure (band), The Cure (film), The Cure (song), The Cure, The cure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cure: Rhymezone
  19. cure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CURE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. cure: FreeDictionary.org
  23. cure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. cure: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. cure: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cure: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. cure: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. The Cure (disambiguation), cure: Legal dictionary
  8. Cure, The Cure (disambiguation): Financial dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Cure (disambiguation), cure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. cure: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cure: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Cure: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  6. cure: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. The Cure (disambiguation), cure: Medical dictionary
  8. Cure: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CURE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. cure: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cure, cure: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cure: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  3. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  4. Cure: Fiberglass Glossary
  5. CURE: Industry Terms for Fiberglass

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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:  (figurative) A solution to a problem.
noun:  A process of preservation, as by smoking.
noun:  Cured fish.
noun:  A process of solidification or gelling.
noun:  (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
noun:  (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
noun:  Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
noun:  That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
verb:  (transitive) To restore to health.
verb:  (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
verb:  (transitive) To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
verb:  To preserve (food), typically by salting.
verb:  (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
verb:  (intransitive) To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
verb:  (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
verb:  (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) An eccentric person.
noun:  A surname.

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