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Yes. The word cure is a Scrabble US word. The word cure is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (3 found)

CRUE,CURE,ECRU,

3-letter words (8 found)

CRU,CUE,CUR,ECU,REC,RUC,RUE,URE,

2-letter words (3 found)

ER,RE,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 15 words from cure according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cure

cure

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kjʊə(ɹ)/
  • (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /kjɵː/, /kjoː/, /kjʉwə/
  • (General American) enPR: kyo͝or, kyûr, IPA(key): /kjʊɹ/, /kjɝ/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /kjʉːə/
  • (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /kjʉːɹ/
  • (Ireland) IPA(key): /kjuːɹ/
  • (Norfolk) IPA(key): /kɜː(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ)

Etymology 1

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 survived as heal.

Noun

cure (plural cures)

  1. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
    Synonyms: curative, mithridate, treacle
  2. An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
  3. (figurative) A solution to a problem.
  4. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
  5. Cured fish.
  6. A process of solidification or gelling.
  7. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
  8. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
  9. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
  10. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
    Synonym: curacy
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English curen, from Old French curer, from Latin cūrāre. Partially displaced Old English ġehǣlan, whence Modern English heal.

Verb

cure (third-person singular simple present cures, present participle curing, simple past and past participle cured)

  1. (transitive) To restore to health.
    Synonym: heal
  2. (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
  3. (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
  4. (transitive) To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
  5. To preserve (food), typically by salting.
  6. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
  7. (intransitive) To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
  8. (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
  9. (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
  10. (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations

Etymology 3

From curiosity.

Noun

cure (plural cures)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) An eccentric person.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

  • crue, cuer, ecru, écru

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French cure, from Old French cure, from Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kyʁ/
  • Rhymes: -yʁ

Noun

cure f (plural cures)

  1. (archaic) care, concern
  2. (obsolete) healing, recovery
  3. (medicine) treatment; cure
  4. (religion) vicarage, presbytery

Derived terms

  • cure de désintox
  • cure de désintoxication
  • n'avoir cure

Related terms

  • curer

Verb

cure

  1. inflection of curer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “cure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • crue, crûe, écru, reçu

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin cūra.

Noun

cure f (plural curis)

  1. treatment
  2. cure

Related terms

  • curâ

Galician

Verb

cure

  1. inflection of curar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈku.re/
  • Rhymes: -ure
  • Hyphenation: cù‧re

Noun

cure f

  1. plural of cura

Anagrams

  • écru

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

cure

  1. alternative form of curre

Etymology 2

Noun

cure

  1. alternative form of quyrre (“quarry”)

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cure.

Noun

cure f (plural cures)

  1. desire

Descendants

  • French: cure

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈku.re/

Verb

cure

  1. inflection of ċēosan:
    1. second-person singular preterite indicative
    2. singular preterite subjunctive

Old French

Etymology

From Latin cūra.

Noun

cure oblique singular, f (oblique plural cures, nominative singular cure, nominative plural cures)

  1. medical attention
  2. worry
  3. desire

Related terms

  • curer

Descendants

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (cure)

Portuguese

Verb

cure

  1. inflection of curar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Probably derived from Latin cōlāre (“to filter, strain”) as well as Latin currere, from Proto-Italic *korzō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-. Mostly replaced by the modified variant form curge.

Verb

a cure (third-person singular present curge, past participle curs) 3rd conjugation

  1. (archaic) to run
    Synonyms: alerga, fugi
  2. (archaic) to flow
    Synonym: curge
  3. (archaic) to drain
    Synonym: scurge

Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

cure (Cyrillic spelling цуре)

  1. inflection of cura:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Spanish

Verb

cure

  1. inflection of curar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Zazaki

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒyˈre/
  • Hyphenation: cu‧re

Noun

cure (m)

  1. (chiefly offensive) dwarf (small person)
  2. dwarf (something much smaller than usual for its sort)

Source: wiktionary.org