n. Care; concern; oversight; charge.n. 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.n. The successful remedial treatment of a disease; the restoration of a sick person to health: as, to effect a cure.n. A method or course of remedial treatment for disease, whether successful or not: as, the water-cure.n. A remedy for disease; a means of curing disease; that which heals: as, a cure for toothache.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.n. That which is cured (see cure, v. 4); a product preserved by drying, salting, etc.; a catch of fish so treated.