Usually means: Elimination or significant reduction of disease.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. cure: Merriam-Webster.com
  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
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  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: Free Dictionary
  23. cure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. cure: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. cure: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. cure: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  6. The Cure (disambiguation), cure: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Cure (disambiguation), cure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Cure: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. Cure: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  5. cure: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. The Cure (disambiguation), cure: Medical dictionary
  7. Cure: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CURE: Acronym Finder
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  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

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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:  A surname.

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