to cure, to heal, to treat
1. to restore to health; to treat a disease or injury
The doctor cured the patient of pneumonia.
O médico curou o paciente da pneumonia.
2. to preserve food by salt, smoke, or drying
They cure the ham by smoking it for months.
Eles curam o presunto fumando-o por meses.
3. to solve or resolve a problem
Education can help cure social ills.
A educação pode ajudar a curar os males sociais.
4. to process or prepare (leather, rubber, etc.)
The rubber is cured in a special chamber.
A borracha é curada em uma câmara especial.
Related Idioms & Phrases
curar a ferida (to heal a wound)
curar de uma doença (to recover from an illness)
curado de (cured of; free from)
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