| cure | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. curative, cure, remedy, therapeutic | a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain. |
| ~ treatment, intervention | care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury). |
| ~ acoustic | a remedy for hearing loss or deafness. |
| ~ antidote, counterpoison | a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison. |
| ~ emetic, nauseant, vomitive, vomit | a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting. |
| ~ lenitive | remedy that eases pain and discomfort. |
| ~ lotion, application | liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin.; "a lotion for dry skin" |
| ~ magic bullet | a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease.; "there is no magic bullet against cancer" |
| ~ medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine | (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease. |
| ~ ointment, salve, unguent, balm, unction | semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation. |
| ~ alleviant, palliative, alleviator | remedy that alleviates pain without curing. |
| ~ catholicon, cure-all, nostrum, panacea | hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists. |
| ~ preventative, preventive, prophylactic | remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease.; "the doctor recommended several preventatives" |
| v. (body) | 2. 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" |
| ~ practice of medicine, medicine | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries.; "he studied medicine at Harvard" |
| ~ care for, treat | provide treatment for.; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics" |
| ~ aid, help | improve the condition of.; "These pills will help the patient" |
| ~ recuperate | restore to good health or strength. |
| v. (change) | 3. cure | prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve.; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay" |
| ~ preserve, keep | prevent (food) from rotting.; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh" |
| ~ cure | be or become preserved.; "the apricots cure in the sun" |
| ~ dun | cure by salting.; "dun codfish" |
| v. (change) | 4. cure | make (substances) hard and improve their usability.; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap" |
| ~ harden, indurate | become hard or harder.; "The wax hardened" |
| v. (change) | 5. cure | be or become preserved.; "the apricots cure in the sun" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ cure | prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve.; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay" |
| healing | | |
| n. (process) | 1. healing | the natural process by which the body repairs itself. |
| ~ bodily function, bodily process, body process, activity | an organic process that takes place in the body.; "respiratory activity" |
| ~ convalescence, recuperation, recovery | gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury. |
| ~ conglutination, union | healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones. |
| adj. | 2. alterative, curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic | tending to cure or restore to health.; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets" |
| ~ healthful | conducive to good health of body or mind.; "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance" |
| look for | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. look for, search, seek | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of.; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" |
| ~ dredge, drag | search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost. |
| ~ finger | search for on the computer.; "I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons" |
| ~ fumble, grope | feel about uncertainly or blindly.; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom" |
| ~ divine | search by divining, as if with a rod.; "He claimed he could divine underground water" |
| ~ surf, browse | look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular.; "browse a computer directory"; "surf the internet or the world wide web" |
| ~ leave no stone unturned | search thoroughly and exhaustively.; "The police left no stone unturned in looking for the President's murderer" |
| ~ hunt | seek, search for.; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them" |
| ~ gather | look for (food) in nature.; "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall" |
| ~ want | hunt or look for; want for a particular reason.; "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you" |
| ~ scour | examine minutely.; "The police scoured the country for the fugitive" |
| ~ seek out | look for a specific person or thing. |
| ~ quest after, quest for, go after, pursue | go in search of or hunt for.; "pursue a hobby" |
| ~ fish, angle | seek indirectly.; "fish for compliments" |
| ~ grub | search about busily. |
| ~ feel | grope or feel in search of something.; "He felt for his wallet" |
| ~ browse, shop | shop around; not necessarily buying.; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing" |
| v. (emotion) | 2. anticipate, look for, look to | be excited or anxious about. |
| ~ await, expect, wait, look | look forward to the probable occurrence of.; "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted" |
| ~ quail at, apprehend | anticipate with dread or anxiety. |
| remedy | | |
| n. (act) | 1. redress, remediation, remedy | act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil. |
| ~ correction, rectification | the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right. |
| ~ salve | anything that remedies or heals or soothes.; "he needed a salve for his conscience" |
| v. (change) | 2. amend, rectify, remediate, remedy, repair | set straight or right.; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" |
| ~ correct, right, rectify | make right or correct.; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation" |
| v. (body) | 3. relieve, remedy | provide relief for.; "remedy his illness" |
| ~ practice of medicine, medicine | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries.; "he studied medicine at Harvard" |
| ~ care for, treat | provide treatment for.; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics" |
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