How to pronounce cure

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What cure means

verb

Most people know cure in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To salt, dry or smoke meat or fish so it keeps

In a sentence: The fishermen cure their catch by packing it in salt and hanging it in the sun.

Where it comes from: It comes from the Latin curare, to take care of, from cura, care. The healing meaning and the keeping-food meaning both grew from that same word.

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