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curare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • care noun Serious attention or effort put into avoiding mistakes or harm.
  • cherish verb To care for someone or something deeply and protect it tenderly.
  • cure noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
  • doctor noun A person trained and licensed to treat sick or injured people.
  • foster verb To raise or care for a child who is not biologically one's own.
  • nurse noun A person trained to care for the sick or injured, typically working under a doctor.
  • nurture noun Care and encouragement given to help someone or something grow and develop.
  • salve noun A soothing or healing ointment applied to the skin.
  • tend verb To be likely to behave, happen, or turn out in a particular way.

Senses

curare is used for these senses in English:

  • care (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
  • cherish To treat with affection, care, and tenderness; to nurture or protect with care.
  • cure (transitive) To restore to health.
  • foster (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
  • foster (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
  • look after (transitive, obsolete) To expect, look forward to. [14th–18th c.]
  • nurse (transitive) To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
  • nurture To nourish or nurse.

care — full definition

  1. noun Serious attention or effort put into avoiding mistakes or harm.
  2. noun Worry or concern about something.
  3. noun The looking after of someone's health, safety, or wellbeing.
  4. verb To feel concern or interest about something.
  5. verb To look after someone or something (usually with "for").

cherish — full definition

  1. verb To care for someone or something deeply and protect it tenderly.
  2. verb To hold an idea, memory, or hope dear.

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