1. [n]  a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
2. [v]  provide a cure for, make healthy again
3. [v]  prepare by chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"

Cure
In this story set in a futuristic Utopian society, a boy named Gemm is labeled a deviant. Viewed as a threat to his society, Gemm is told he must undergo a mysterious cure or both he and his twin sister will be recycled. When Gemm chooses to take the cure, he is transported back in time to the year 1348--at the onset of the Black Plague. Gemm, now a Jewish 16-year-old named Johannes, finds himself living in Strasbourg, a town rife with anti-Semitism. As Gemm/Johannes struggles to preserve his religious faith, he must also confront the horrors of the plague.

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1. \Cure\> (k?r), n. [OF, cure care, F., also, cure, healing,
   cure of souls, L. cura care, medical attendance, cure; perh.
   akin to cavere to pay heed, E. cution. Cure is not related to
   care.]
   1. Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.]
            Of study took he most cure and most heed. --Chaucer.
            Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. --Fuller.
   2. 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;
      as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.
            The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had
            the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
                                                  --Spelman.
   3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a
      method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
   4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to
      health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
            Past hope! pastcure! past help.       --Shak.
            I do cures to-day and to-morrow.      --Luke xii.
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   5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals;
      a remedy; a restorative.
            Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
                                                  --Dryden.
            The proper cure of such prejudices.   --Bp. Hurd.
   

2. \Cure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cured} (k?rd); p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Curing}.] [OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to
   cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr. cura. See
   {Cure},.]
   1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to
      make well; -- said of a patient.
            The child was cured from that very hour. --Matt.
                                                  xvii. 18.
   2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to
      remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
            To cure this deadly grief.            --Shak.
            Then he called his twelve disciples together, and
            gave them power . . . to cure diseases. --Luke ix.
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   3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as
      from a bad habit.
            I never knew any man cured of inattention. --Swift.
   4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to
      preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or
      fish; to cure hay.
   

3. \Cure\, v. i.
   1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.]
   2. To restore health; to effect a cure.
            Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is
            able with the change to kill and cure. --Shak.
   3. To become healed.
            One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
                                                  --Shak.