cure

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A drug or course of medical treatment used to restore health.
• noun Restoration of health; recovery from disease.
• noun Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation.
• noun Ecclesiastical Spiritual charge or care, as of a priest for a congregation.
• noun The office or duties of a curate.
• noun The act or process of preserving a product.
• intransitive verb To cause to be free of a disease or unhealthy condition.
• intransitive verb To cause to be free of, to lose interest in, or to stop doing something.
• intransitive verb To eliminate (a disease, for example) from the body by medical or other treatment; cause recovery from.
• intransitive verb To remove or remedy (something harmful or disturbing).
• intransitive verb To preserve (meat, for example), as by salting, smoking, or aging.
• intransitive verb To prepare, preserve, or finish (a substance) by a chemical or physical process.
• intransitive verb To vulcanize (rubber).
• intransitive verb To effect a cure or recovery.
• intransitive verb To be prepared, preserved, or finished by a chemical or physical process.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To take care of; care for.
• To restore to health or to a sound state; heal or make well: as, he was cured of a wound, or of a fever.
• To remove or put an end to by remedial means; heal, as a disease; remedy, as an evil of any kind; remove, as something objectionable.
• To prepare for preservation by drying, salting, etc.: as, to cure hay; to cure fish or beef.
• To care; take care; be careful.
• To effect a cure.
• To become well; be cured.
• noun That which is cured (see cure, v. 4); a product preserved by drying, salting, etc.; a catch of fish so treated.
• noun Care; concern; oversight; charge.
• noun Specifically Spiritual charge; the employment or office of a curate or parish priest; curacy: as, the cure of souls (see below): ordinarily confined in use to the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches.
• noun The successful remedial treatment of a disease; the restoration of a sick person to health: as, to effect a cure.
• noun A method or course of remedial treatment for disease, whether successful or not: as, the water-cure.
• noun A remedy for disease; a means of curing disease; that which heals: as, a cure for toothache.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
• transitive verb To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
• transitive verb To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
• transitive verb To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc..
• intransitive verb obsolete To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
• intransitive verb To restore health; to effect a cure.
• intransitive verb To become healed.
• noun obsolete Care, heed, or attention.
• noun Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.
• noun Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment.
• noun Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
• noun Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A method, device or medication that restores good health.
• noun A solution to a problem.
• noun A process of preservation, as by smoking.
• 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 and/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; a curacy.