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

Synonym(s): bring_around, heal

Hypernym(s): help, aid

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

Hypernym(s): preserve, keep

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

Hypernym(s): harden, indurate

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

Hypernym(s): change

· 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

Synonym(s): healed, recovered

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

Synonym(s): vulcanized, vulcanised

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

· (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry

· (used especially of meat) cured in brine

Synonym(s): corned

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

Synonym(s): aged