Definition of "curé" []

• Restoration of health; recovery from disease. (noun)
• A method or course of medical treatment used to restore health. (noun)
• An agent, such as a drug, that restores health; a remedy. (noun)
• Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation: The cats proved to be a good cure for our mouse problem. (noun)
• Ecclesiastical Spiritual charge or care, as of a priest for a congregation. (noun)

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• "We rarely use the word cure in metastatic disease, Canetta said, but some patients getting Yervoy have now been followed for four years or more."
• "Komen, though, is certainly a job creator, since it does employ a lot of lawyers suing people who want to use the word "cure" in their fundraising."
• "While I agree with freedom of speech even for the speech I hate, the cure is as Jefferson suggested: To paste the fat a$$es of the abusers with scorn and calumny so that they will never be allowed to walk in polite (and sane) society again."