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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
cure
/kɜː(ɹ)/
noun1 of 2
a medicine or treatment that makes an ill person become healthy
- “Of course, this is not a cure for all disease.”Tatoeba
- “At present it is medically impossible to cure this disease.”Tatoeba
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verb2 of 2
To restore to health.
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)