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cure
Overview of noun cure
The noun cure has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (8) remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic -- (a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain)
Overview of verb cure
The verb cure has 4 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (14) 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. (1) 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")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cure
1 sense of cure
Sense 1
remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
=> medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug
=> drug
=> agent
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun cure
1 sense of cure
Sense 1
remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
=> acoustic
=> antidote, counterpoison
=> emetic, vomit, vomitive, nauseant
=> lenitive
=> lotion, application
=> magic bullet
=> ointment, unction, unguent, balm, salve
=> palliative, alleviant, alleviator
=> panacea, nostrum, catholicon, cure-all
=> preventive, preventative, prophylactic
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cure
1 sense of cure
Sense 1
remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
=> medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug
Antonyms of noun cure
Member Holonyms of noun cure
Substance Holonyms of noun cure
Part Holonyms of noun cure
1 sense of cure
Sense 1
remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
PART OF: treatment
Member Meronyms of noun cure
Substance Meronyms of noun cure
Part Meronyms of noun cure
Meronyms of noun cure
Holonyms of noun cure
1 sense of cure
Sense 1
remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
PART OF: treatment
Attributes of noun cure
Derived Forms of noun cure
1 sense of cure
Sense 1
remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
RELATED TO>(verb) cure#1
=> bring around, cure, heal
Domain of noun cure
Domain Terms of noun cure
Familiarity of noun cure
cure used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun cure
1 sense of cure
Sense 1
remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
> medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug
=> acyclovir, Zovirax
=> alendronate, Fosamax
=> allopurinol, Zyloprim
=> amrinone, Inocor
=> analgesic, anodyne, painkiller, pain pill
=> angiogenesis inhibitor
=> antiarrhythmic, antiarrhythmic drug, antiarrhythmic medication
=> antibacterial, antibacterial drug, bactericide
=> anticholinergic, anticholinergic drug
=> anticholinesterase
=> anticoagulant, anticoagulant medication, decoagulant
=> anticonvulsant, anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic, antiepileptic drug
=> antidepressant, antidepressant drug
=> antidiabetic, antidiabetic drug
=> antidiarrheal, antidiarrheal drug
=> antidiuretic, antidiuretic drug
=> antiemetic, antiemetic drug
=> antihistamine
=> antihypertensive, antihypertensive drug
=> anti-inflammatory, anti-inflammatory drug
=> antiprotozoal, antiprotozoal drug
=> antipyretic, febrifuge
=> antiseptic
=> antispasmodic, spasmolytic, antispasmodic agent
=> antitussive
=> antiviral, antiviral agent, antiviral drug
=> APC
=> astringent, astringent drug, styptic
=> atomic cocktail
=> azathioprine, Imuran
=> blocker, blocking agent
=> bronchodilator
=> calcium blocker, calcium-channel blocker
=> carminative
=> clofibrate, Atromid-S
=> clopidogrel bisulfate, Plavix
=> cold medicine
=> counterirritant
=> cytotoxic drug
=> decongestant
=> demulcent
=> diaphoretic
=> disulfiram, Antabuse
=> dose
=> Drixoral
=> drug cocktail, highly active antiretroviral therapy, HAART
=> expectorant, expectorator
=> fixed-combination drug
=> gemfibrozil, Lopid
=> hematinic, haematinic
=> herbal medicine
=> histamine blocker
=> immunosuppressant, immunosuppressor, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressive, immune suppressant drug
=> inhalant, inhalation
=> isoproterenol, Isuprel
=> isosorbide, Isordil
=> lipid-lowering medicine, lipid-lowering medication, statin drug, statin
=> methacholine, Mecholyl
=> nux vomica
=> over-the-counter drug, over-the-counter medicine
=> oxytocic, oxytocic drug
=> paregoric, camphorated tincture of opium
=> patent medicine
=> penicillamine, Cuprimine
=> pentylenetetrazol, pentamethylenetetrazol, Metrazol
=> pharmaceutical, pharmaceutic
=> placebo
=> powder
=> prescription drug, prescription, prescription medicine, ethical drug
=> probenecid
=> purgative, cathartic, physic, aperient
=> remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
=> rubefacient
=> sedative, sedative drug, depressant, downer
=> soothing syrup
=> specific
=> sucralfate, Carafate
=> sudorific, sudatory
=> suppository
=> tincture
=> tonic, restorative
=> tyrosine kinase inhibitor
=> vermicide
=> vermifuge, anthelmintic, anthelminthic, helminthic
Meronyms of noun cure
1 sense of cure
Sense 1
remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
=> medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug
HAS SUBSTANCE: physostigmine
Holonyms of noun cure
1 sense of cure
Sense 1
remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
PART OF: treatment
Grep of noun cure
cure
cure-all
curet
curettage
curette
curettement
epicure
faith cure
manicure
pedicure
rest-cure
sinecure
Antonyms of verb cure
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cure
4 senses of cure
Sense 1
bring around, cure, heal
=> help, aid
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 2
cure
=> preserve, keep
=> cook, fix, ready, make, prepare
=> create from raw material, create from raw stuff
=> make, create
Sense 3
cure
=> harden, indurate
=> change
Sense 4
cure
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb cure
2 of 4 senses of cure
Sense 1
bring around, cure, heal
=> recuperate
Sense 2
cure
=> dun
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cure
4 senses of cure
Sense 1
bring around, cure, heal
=> help, aid
Sense 2
cure
=> preserve, keep
Sense 3
cure
=> harden, indurate
Sense 4
cure
=> change
'Cause To' of verb cure
Derived Forms of verb cure
2 of 4 senses of cure
Sense 1
bring around, cure, heal
RELATED TO>(adj) curative#1
=> curative, healing(predicate), alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic
RELATED TO>(noun) cure#1
=> remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
Sense 2
cure
RELATED TO>(noun) curing#1
=> hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing
Domain of verb cure
1 of 4 senses of cure
Sense 1
bring around, cure, heal
TOPIC>(noun) medicine#3, practice of medicine#1
Domain Terms of verb cure
Familiarity of verb cure
cure used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Sample Sentences of verb cure
4 senses of cure
Sense 1
bring around, cure, heal
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
cure
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
cure
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 4
cure
*> Something ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb cure
4 senses of cure
Sense 1
bring around, cure, heal
> help, aid
=> bring around, cure, heal
=> benefit, do good
Sense 2
cure
> preserve, keep
=> freeze-dry
=> conserve
=> dehydrate, desiccate
=> pickle
=> salt
=> can, tin, put up
=> refrigerate
=> cure
=> corn
Sense 3
cure
> harden, indurate
=> encrust, incrust
=> callus
=> calcify
=> cure
Sense 4
cure
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb cure
Sense 2
cure
=> preserve, keep
Sense 4
cure
=> change
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Sense 1
bring around, cure, heal
=> help, aid
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Sense 3
cure
=> harden, indurate
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Grep of verb cure
cure
manicure
obscure
pedicure
procure
secure
Grep of adj cure
cured
insecure
obscure
secure
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