Definitions for cures

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Spelling: [kyoo r]
IPA: /kyʊər/

Cures is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in cures (cersu).

Definitions for cures

noun

  1. a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
  2. a method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease.
  3. successful remedial treatment; restoration to health.
  4. a means of correcting or relieving anything that is troublesome or detrimental:
  5. the act or a method of preserving meat, fish, etc., by smoking, salting, or the like.
  6. spiritual or religious charge of the people in a certain district.
  7. the office or district of a curate or parish priest.
  8. (in France) a parish priest.

verb (used with object)

  1. to restore to health.
  2. to relieve or rid of something detrimental, as an illness or a bad habit.
  3. to prepare (meat, fish, etc.) for preservation by salting, drying, etc.
  4. to promote hardening of (fresh concrete or mortar), as by keeping it damp.
  5. to process (rubber, tobacco, etc.) as by fermentation or aging.

verb (used without object)

  1. to effect a cure.
  2. to become cured.

Origin of cures

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English curen Middle French curer Latin cūrāre to take care of, derivative of cūra care; (noun) Middle English Old French cure Latin cūra

Examples for cures

Right off the bat, the “Doing Our Bit for the cure” campaign seemed peculiar.

Regrow limbs, cure cancer, or rock a killer outfit à la Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element.

For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.

If she had, now, she might cure some decent girl of her infatuation.

Yes, that we may consider and see what ought to have been done to cure him.

It is not strange that when we have swallowed the dose it does little to effect a cure.

They also appear to have successfully applied it to the cure of diseases.

In 2007 he said he had discovered a cure for AIDS using natural herbs.

An accurate knowledge of our defects will soonest lead to their cure.

The transfusions are not a cure, but are a second line of defense for the body.

Word Value for cures
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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