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лека́рство — meaning in English

lekarstvo

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English meaning

  • cure noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
  • drug noun A substance taken for its effect on the body or mind, whether medicinal or intoxicating.
  • medication noun A drug or medicine used to treat an illness.
  • medicine noun A substance taken to treat or prevent illness.
  • remedy noun Something that fixes a problem or relieves an unwanted condition.

Senses

лека́рство is used for these senses in English:

  • cure A method, device or medication that restores good health.
  • drug (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
  • medication A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
  • medicine (uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
  • remedy A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.

cure — full definition

  1. noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
  2. verb To restore someone to health, or to fix a problem completely.
  3. verb To preserve food, typically meat or fish, by salting, smoking, or drying.

drug — full definition

  1. noun A substance taken for its effect on the body or mind, whether medicinal or intoxicating.
  2. verb To secretly give someone an intoxicating or sedating substance.

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