Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #382 of 1319

cure (n.)

a treatment that ends illness

Examples

  • No cure exists.

Key rules

  • A cure is a treatment that ends an illness
  • Find a cure, a cure for disease
  • Cure is countable

Use cases

  • Medical research
  • Describing treatment
  • Discussing illnesses
💡 Tip: Cure can also be a verb: cure a disease.
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