Usually means: Treatments that effectively eliminate diseases.
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  1. cures: Merriam-Webster
  2. cures: Vocabulary.com
  3. Cure's, Cures, cure's, cures: Wordnik
  4. cures: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. Cures, cures: Wiktionary
  6. cures: Dictionary.com
  7. cures: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Cures: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cures: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. cures: Legal dictionary
  3. cures: Financial dictionary

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  1. cures: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cures: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. cures: Medical dictionary

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  1. CURES: Acronym Finder
  2. cures: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cure)

noun:  A method, device or medication that restores good health.
noun:  An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
noun:  (figurative) A solution to a problem.
noun:  A process of preservation, as by smoking.
noun:  Cured fish.
noun:  A process of solidification or gelling.
noun:  (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
noun:  (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
noun:  Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
noun:  That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
verb:  (transitive) To restore to health.
verb:  (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
verb:  (transitive) To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
verb:  To preserve (food), typically by salting.
verb:  (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
verb:  (intransitive) To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
verb:  (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
verb:  (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) An eccentric person.
noun:  A surname.
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