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# cure

«cure» in Mova's school dictionary: **a medicine or treatment that makes an illness go away…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cure/#m1)

2) To cure someone or an illness is to make them well again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cure/#m2)

3) To cure a problem is to solve it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cure/#m3)

4) To cure meat or fish is to keep it from going bad by salting, smoking or drying it, like bacon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cure/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cure/#x1)
- Medicine cured her infection. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cure/#x2)
- Scientists are looking for a cure for the disease. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cure/#x3)
- Prevention is better than cure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cure/#x4)
- A good sleep is the best cure for tiredness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cure/#x5)
- The wizard searched for a cure for the sleeping princess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cure/#x6)
- Bacon is cured meat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cure/#x7)
- Fresh air cured my headache. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cure/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/1/)
- [Some hopes are big and serious: cures for diseases, help learning in any language.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/2/)
- [Pangolins are among the most smuggled mammals, killed for scales that are only keratin and cure nothing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish/14/)
- [«Talking to Toad'll never cure him,» says the Rat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/0/)
- [So the Badger decides on force: the three of them will move into Toad Hall and stay until Toad is cured.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cure» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cure/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.