Thursday, April 28, 2011

Cure

Provide a cure for (medicine) or a method or course of remedial treatment, as for disease: ‘Is there a cure for tuberculosis? Heal (provide a cure for): ‘The wound is healing slowly’ ‘The quack pretended to heal patients.’ Treat (Provide treatment for an injury, disease, sick person etc.): ‘The usual way of treating malaria is to give the patient large doses of quinine.’

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