Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - cure

 I. noun  Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin cura, ~ of souls, from Latin, care  Date: 14th century  1.  a. spiritual charge ; care  b. pastoral charge of a parish  2.  a. recovery or relief from a disease  b. something (as a drug or treatment) that ~s a disease  c. a course or period of treatment take the ~ for alcoholism  d. spa 1  3. a complete or permanent solution or remedy seeking a ~ for unemployment  4. a process or method of curing  • ~less adjective  II. verb  (~d; curing)  Date: 14th century  transitive verb  1.  a. to restore to health, soundness, or normality ~ a patient of his illness  b. to bring about recovery from ~ a disease  2.  a. to deal with in a way that eliminates or rectifies his small size, which time would ~ for him — William Faulkner  b. to free from something objectionable or harmful trying to ~ him of a bad habit  3. to prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use fish ~d with salt  intransitive verb  1.  a. to undergo a curing process  b. set 11  2. to effect a ~  • ~r noun CURE  noun  Etymology: French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin curatus — more at curate  Date: 1655 a parish priest