Antonyms for cure
kyʊˈreɪ, ˈkyʊər eɪcure

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1. cure

   The transitive use of recover in the sense of cure, heal, etc., as in 2 Kings v, 6, "That thou mayest recover him of his leprosy," is now practically obsolete. The chief transitive use of recover is in the sense to obtain again after losing, regain, repossess, etc.; as, to recover stolen goods; to recover health. The intransitive sense, be cured, be restored, etc., is very common; as, to recover from sickness, terror, or misfortune.

   Antonyms:
   die, fail, grow worse, relapse, sink

   Synonyms:
   be cured, be healed, be restored, heal, reanimate, recover, recruit, recuperate, regain, repossess, restore, resume, retrieve

   Preposition:
   From; rarely of; (Law) to recover judgment against, to recover damages of or from a person.

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1. curenoun

   Antonyms:
   aggravation, confirmation, complaint, disease, ailment, inoculation, contagion, corruption

   Synonyms:
   remedy, alleviation, restorative, heal-all, amelioration, reinstatement, restoration, renovation, convalescence

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Harden
   • Preserve

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. remedy, curative, cure, therapeuticverb

   a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

   Synonyms:
   therapeutic, redress, remedy, curative, remediation

2. bring around, cure, healverb

   provide a cure for, make healthy again

   "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"

   Synonyms:
   bring around, bring to, heal, bring back, mend, bring round

3. cureverb

   prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve

   "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"

   Synonyms:
   bring around, heal

4. cureverb

   make (substances) hard and improve their usability

   "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"

   Synonyms:
   bring around, heal

5. cureverb

   be or become preserved

   "the apricots cure in the sun"

   Synonyms:
   bring around, heal

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1. curénoun

   Synonyms:
   spiritual charge, curacy, medical treatment, therapy, antidote, remedy, specific, healing

2. cureverb

   Synonyms:
   heal, remedy

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. CURE

   Synonyms:
   Clopidogrel in Unstable Angina to Prevent Recurrent ischaemic Events

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. cholera

   cure is the oppisite of cholera

   "the cure is finally here!"

   Submitted by rinat on September 23, 2019  

How to use cure in a sentence?

1. Ellie Burrows Gluck:

   Life is messy, and although meditation isn't a cure all it can help us to remember to breathe and that we'll never be able to clean it all up.

2. Megan Ranney:

   Going out in the sun or exposing yourself to these high-intensity UV lamps is not going to protect you from Covid-19, i don't want people to think that this is another miracle cure.

3. Juan Guaido:

   The unease is natural. We've spent 20 years suffering attacks. They have killed political leaders, they have jailed others, I was kidnapped for a few hours, they've killed my friends, i don't aim to cure the wounds of 20 years, and I don't aim to hide them. I aim to recognize those that are there.

4. Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

   If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

5. Sean Strub:

   This is the kind of thing that gets overhyped and contributes to the complacency that the public has about the epidemic, it does not do a single thing to prevent transmissions and cure people.

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