## Meanings
1. To make an illness or a sick person healthy again.
2. A medicine or treatment that makes an illness go away.
3. To preserve food such as meat or fish by drying, salting, or smoking it.

## Examples
- The new medicine cured her infection within days.
- Scientists are still searching for a cure for the disease.
- They cure the ham with salt and smoke for several weeks.

## Derived Forms
- anti-cure
- curability
- cure-all
- curebie
- cureless
- curer
- dry-cure
- faith-cure
- fire-cure
- incurable
- king-cure
- miscure

## Related Forms
- curate
- curative
- curator
- pedicure
- recure
- sinecure

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *kʷeys-
- Root: cure
- Root: cura

## Etymology
From Middle English cure, borrowed from Old French cure (“care, cure, healing, cure of souls”), from Latin cura (“care, medical attendance, cure”). Displaced native Old English hǣlu, but this survived as heal.

## AI Etymology
cure comes from Middle English cure, borrowed from Old French cure (“care, cure, healing, cure of souls”), from Latin cura (“care, medical attendance, cure”). Displaced native Old English hǣlu, but this survived as heal. The historical chain includes Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys-, Middle English cure, Old French cure, Latin cura. Current senses include to make an illness or a sick person healthy again and A medicine or treatment that makes an illness go away. English relatives and later formations include anti-cure, curability, cure-all, curate, curative.

## Topics
- Health & Medicine

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