- 1cure (for something) a medicine or medical treatment that cures an illness the search for a cure for cancer There is no known cure but the illness can be treated. The only real cure is rest.
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- 2the act of curing someone of an illness or the process of being cured Doctors cannot effect a cure if the disease has spread too far. The cure took six weeks.
- 3cure (for something) something that will solve a problem, improve a bad situation, etc. a cure for poverty Idioms
it is better to stop something bad from happening rather than try to deal with the problems after it has happened
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