cure

verb

Pronunciation: /kjɔː(r)/ / /kjʊə(ɹ)/ / /kjɵː/

Etymology: * As an Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, reduced from McClure. Also compare McIver. * As an English surname, from the noun cure.

Etymology: From curiosity.

An eccentric person.
“The mud was thick — the crossing clean — / A well dressed man, genteel of mien — / Walked through the first (he might be poor), / The sweeper muttered, "He's a Cure."”
“He’s quite a nice gentleman, though, to be sure, he does look a cure.”

Etymology: From Middle English curen, from Old French curer, from Latin cūrāre. Partially displaced Old English ġehǣlan, whence Modern English heal.

To restore to health.
“Unaided nature cured him.”
““Enough, Yet not enough. A bullet through and through, High in the breast. Nothing but what good care And medicine and rest, and you a week, Can cure me of to go again.” The same Grim giving to do over for them both.”
To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
“Unaided nature cured his ailments.”
“Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure.”
To cause to be rid of (a defect).
“Experience will cure him of his naïveté.”
To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
“The smoke and heat cures the meat.”
To preserve (food), typically by salting.
To bring about a cure of any kind.
To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
“The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.”
To solidify or gel.
“The parts were curing in the autoclave.”
To become healed.
“One desperate grief cures with another's languish.”
To pay heed; to care; to give attention.