cure
part of speech
noun (a cure, cures); verb (cure, cures, cured, curing)
meaning for a pupil
1) A cure is a medicine or treatment that makes an illness go away completely. tree →
2) To cure someone or an illness is to make them well again. tree →
3) To cure a problem is to solve it. tree →
4) To cure meat or fish is to keep it from going bad by salting, smoking or drying it, like bacon. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science and health lessons: some illnesses have a cure (many infections), others can only be treated or prevented, for example with vaccines; scientists research cures. In stories, heroes search for a magic cure. Phrases: a cure for, cure-all, prevention is better than cure.
examples
- There is no cure for the common cold. tree →
- Medicine cured her infection. tree →
- Scientists are looking for a cure for the disease. tree →
- Prevention is better than cure. tree →
- A good sleep is the best cure for tiredness. tree →
- The wizard searched for a cure for the sleeping princess. tree →
- Bacon is cured meat. tree →
- Fresh air cured my headache. tree →
note
Use «a cure for» (not «a cure of»). Treatment helps you feel better; a cure makes the illness go away. Trap: antibiotics do not cure colds or flu, because those are caused by viruses.
In the corpora
- Some illnesses in old age never go away; doctors call them chronic, and they can be controlled but not cured.
- Some hopes are big and serious: cures for diseases, help learning in any language.
- Pangolins are among the most smuggled mammals, killed for scales that are only keratin and cure nothing.
- «Talking to Toad'll never cure him,» says the Rat.
- So the Badger decides on force: the three of them will move into Toad Hall and stay until Toad is cured.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cure» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.