1. (

• bring_around ,
• cure ,
• heal ,

) provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to" ;

2. (

• cure

) prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay" ;

3. (

• cure ,

) make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap" ;

4. (

• cure ,

) be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun" ;

1. (

• cured ,
• healed ,
• recovered

) freed from illness or injury; "the patient appears cured"; "the incision is healed"; "appears to be entirely recovered"; "when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium"- Normon Cameron ;

2. (

• cured ,
• vulcanized ,
• vulcanised

) (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) ;

3. (

• cured

) (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening ;

4. (

• cured ,

) (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry ;

5. (

• corned ,
• cured ,

) (used especially of meat) cured in brine ;

6. (

• aged ,
• cured ,

) (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable) ;