I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cure for a disease
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There is no known cure for this disease.
a miracle cure (= something that solves a problem very effectively )
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Unfortunately, there is no miracle cure for thinning hair.
cure a disease
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The plant was believed to cure diseases in humans and cattle.
prevention is better than cure (= it is better to stop something bad from happening than to remove the problem once it has happened )
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You know what they say, prevention is better than cure .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
effective
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Probably the only effective cure for green water is a U/V filter.
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Both are equally effective and achieve cures about 80 percent of the time.
good
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Stallions have an especially low tolerance for boredom, and the best cure is greater variety in work.
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So the best cure might lie in shortening the period when that is possible.
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You can use the Alexander Technique as a preventative measure: after all, prevention is better than cure .
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That's the best cure for people who write anonymous letters.
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But keeping busy really is the best cure .
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Prevention is better than cure , and you should use a lot of deep stances during your basic training.
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The best cure , for both women and men, would be better education and more jobs for the not-very-bright.
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I have known it to be successfully treated with black sulphur powder mixed with water but prevention is better than cure .
only
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The only cure would have been to leave.
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Probably the only effective cure for green water is a U/V filter.
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Because if your dry ends turn to split ends, the only cure is no ends.
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If an adenocarcinoma in Barrett's oesophagus is diagnosed, resection offers the only chance for cure .
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An operation is often the only cure for this painful condition.
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For two years Kelly's been waiting for a heart and lung transplant, the only cure for her condition.
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The only cure , however, is to remove lead from the water system altogether, by replacing old pipes and tanks.
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The only easy cure is make the winding-on in alternate directions, say ten turns each way.
■ NOUN
miracle
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Unfortunately, there is no miracle cure for thinning hair but there are some very good treatments around.
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The miracle cure is when the patient helped cure himself..
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Salesmen sell miracle cures for all kinds of diseases.
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The alternatives have very seldom been tested in any scientific way, and their promises of miracle cures are usually anecdotal.
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Yet levitation and miracle cures were not unknown.
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And miracle cures had become almost religious lore.
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If so, tax cuts would be the miracle cure .
■ VERB
discover
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I think, however, I may have discovered a cure .
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None of the doctors in Oaxaca could discover any cure for her illness.
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Intent on discovering a cure for a certain strain of influenza, Robert Shannon faces tremendous difficulties, both personal and professional.
effect
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In order to effect a lasting cure , it is necessary to correct the fundamental imbalance or disharmony.
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He said all her friends had advised it; they had cited many cases where it had effected a cure .
find
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If I was a scientist it would be like finding a cure for for a disease or a technological breakthrough.
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Clearly, more and better research will be required if science hopes to find a cure for diet-related stupidity in our lifetime.
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Her specialist consulted experts worldwide without finding a cure .
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Thanks to it as well, very little money was being spent to fight the disease or find a cure .
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Will we be the people who will have the task and experience of finding this cure ?
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And it was around for centuries before people managed to find a cure for it.
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It is only when we begin to face an illness that we can find a cure .
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Hopefully, some one, somewhere will find a permanent cure from this debilitating malaise, known only as Red Spot Mania.
kill
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But the robot can kill as well as cure .
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It has been said, with some truth, that more fish are killed by cures than diseases.
offer
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Can you tell me what's causing this, and more importantly, offer any cure ?
provide
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It was built in the early nineteenth century to provide cures for numerous illnesses.
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However, don't assume that this will provide a complete cure for the problem, it will merely reduce it.
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Similarly, at the Aesculapian sanctuary near Epidaurus, dormitories were provided for pilgrims seeking cures .
seek
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Here, the sick would come to worship and seek for cures .
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Similarly, at the Aesculapian sanctuary near Epidaurus, dormitories were provided for pilgrims seeking cures .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an ounce of prevention (is worth a pound of cure)
kill or cure
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The spring Budget, therefore, will be kill or cure.
miracle cure/drug
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I can call myself lucky because streptomycin, the miracle drug, is newly available.
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If so, tax cuts would be the miracle cure.
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Last week medical research came up with another miracle drug.
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Salesmen sell miracle cures for all kinds of diseases.
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The miracle cure is when the patient helped cure himself..
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The alternatives have very seldom been tested in any scientific way, and their promises of miracle cures are usually anecdotal.
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The fear of chemicals can also delay new miracle drugs from entering the market.
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Unfortunately, there is no miracle cure for thinning hair but there are some very good treatments around.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Adding a little oil into the mechanism is one of the best cures for a noisy engine.
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As yet there's no known cure for the disease.
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Different management practices might be the cure for the company's problems.
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I can give you some tablets that will ease the symptoms, but they're not a cure .
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It's not a miracle cure , but moisturiser can make your skin less dry.
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Miraculous cures have been reported in Lourdes.
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Prevention is far better than any cure .
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The experts believe they know the causes of the crime wave but they cannot agree on a cure .
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What's the best cure for a hangover?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Athelstan studied the jars, dismissing them as nothing but mild cures for ague, aches and pains.
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Hope that a cure will be found for the disease is what keeps his wife going, DelVecchio said.
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Some of his cures were certified by the newly formed Royal Society of Medicine.
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The cure for the shaking floor is to rebuild the floor, an intimidating task at best.
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The simple cure is to fit a damper.
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The sooner they find a cure , the better.
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This is the perfect marriage: a disease and a cure , both geographically specific.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
disease
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And his recovery will prove to all sufferers that the disease can be cured .
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The disease can be cured easily with Tetracycline ointment, which costs about $ 1.80 per patient.
drug
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Adults and children suffer from strange, debilitating headaches that no drugs will cure .
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She had told him that she knew a magic drug to cure any ailment.
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The team invents a wonder drug to cure depression.
ill
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Like Euripides she believed the sea could cure the ills of man.
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I believe my violence will cure their ills !
medicine
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We have spent some passionate evenings together changing traveller's cheques and looking for medicine to cure stomach disorders.
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A lengthy course of the right medicine can cure the disease.
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Something, Mrs Rubinstein, that medicine can not cure .
problem
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Payton has copied Stuart Ripley's pre-match warm-up routine to help cure a hamstring problem .
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Spaying and neutering pets is the easiest way to cure that problem .
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Once you have cured the water pollution problem , you will have to take steps to avoid it happening again.
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In the back of the King Street pharmacy he worked on new concoctions, cures for minor dermatological problems .
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On their own, owls can not cure the rat problem , but they can help with control.
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The machine costs £170 but is guaranteed to cure 100 problems .
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To cure the problem , try one of the following ideas.
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Nine operations between them had failed to cure the problem and they managed only by almost daily use of laxatives and enemas.
way
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Had he gone into the wood to find a way to cure the blemish?
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Spaying and neutering pets is the easiest way to cure that problem.
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He felt the best way to cure her was to keep giving her her head.
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There was no easy way to cure this.
■ VERB
believe
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Like Euripides she believed the sea could cure the ills of man.
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Its water is believed to cure children of disease.
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I believe my violence will cure their ills!
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Some force deep within truly wants to believe aliens cured that Montana farmer of his pesky hernia problem.
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For this reason, it was called the Golden Bough and was believed to cure diseases in humans and cattle.
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They are believed to cure indigestion.
try
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Or you might try brandy - it cures most fits.
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On a Saturday afternoon, Corporal Tambini tried to cure him of this structural malformation.
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Don't try to cure the flakiness yourself with an anti- dandruff shampoo - it requires a different treatment.
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The prime minister is taking the blame for the pain of trying to cure the economy.
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I took sleeping pills for the first month and then tried hypnotherapy to cure it.
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Now, as I tried to cure my asthma, I gave up smoking altogether.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an ounce of prevention (is worth a pound of cure)
miracle cure/drug
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I can call myself lucky because streptomycin, the miracle drug, is newly available.
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If so, tax cuts would be the miracle cure.
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Last week medical research came up with another miracle drug.
▪
Salesmen sell miracle cures for all kinds of diseases.
▪
The miracle cure is when the patient helped cure himself..
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The alternatives have very seldom been tested in any scientific way, and their promises of miracle cures are usually anecdotal.
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The fear of chemicals can also delay new miracle drugs from entering the market.
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Unfortunately, there is no miracle cure for thinning hair but there are some very good treatments around.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Beveridge believed that unemployment could be cured by state intervention.
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Doctors won't consider her cured until she has been free of cancer for several years.
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Eventually we found a doctor who was able to cure her of her depression.
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If your computer stops working, re-booting might cure the problem.
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It is possible that in the near future we will be able to cure AIDS.
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Many cancer victims can be cured if the disease is detected early enough.
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Most economic ills cannot be cured by a simple infusion of cash.
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Penicillin or other antibiotics will cure most infections.
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Prostate cancer can be cured if it is caught early.
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The only thing that can cure grief is time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it solved the problem of Thérèse's tantrums at night, it cured them in no time.
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His patronage came about when people suffering from rabies were cured at his grave.
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Make a kind of grand tour on my own, take the waters and cure what ails me.
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Oh, how he would have loved to cure her of her loneliness.
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There is always some magic remedy that will cure it, or some whizz-kid quack with a patent method.
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This cured it and I had the carbs tuned to perfection.
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This alternative to the matrixing arrangement is exactly what I used in curing a large, troubled government procurement organization.