The difference between Cure and Leech
When used as nouns, cure means a method, device or medication that restores good health, whereas leech means an aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class hirudinea, especially .
When used as verbs, cure means to restore to health, whereas leech means to apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cure and Leech
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Cure as a noun:
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
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Cure as a noun:
Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
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Cure as a noun:
A solution to a problem.
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Cure as a noun:
A process of preservation, as by smoking.
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Cure as a noun:
A process of solidification or gelling.
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Cure as a noun (engineering):
A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
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Cure as a noun (obsolete):
Care, heed, or attention.
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Cure as a noun:
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
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Cure as a noun:
That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.
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Cure as a verb (transitive):
To restore to health.
Examples:
"Unaided nature cured him."
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Cure as a verb (transitive):
To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
Examples:
"Unaided nature cured his ailments."
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Cure as a verb (transitive):
To cause to be rid of (a defect).
Examples:
"Experience will cure him of his naïveté."
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Cure as a verb (transitive):
To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
Examples:
"The smoke and heat cures the meat."
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Cure as a verb (intransitive):
To bring about a cure of any kind.
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Cure as a verb (intransitive):
To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
Examples:
"The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure."
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Cure as a verb:
To preserve (food), typically by salting
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Cure as a verb (intransitive):
To solidify or gel.
Examples:
"The parts were curing in the autoclave."
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Cure as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To become healed.
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Cure as a verb (obsolete):
To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
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Leech as a noun:
An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially .
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Leech as a noun (figuratively):
A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
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Leech as a noun (medicine, dated):
A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
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Leech as a verb (transitive):
To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
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Leech as a verb (transitive):
To drain (resources) without giving back.
Examples:
" Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return."
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Leech as a noun (archaic):
A physician.
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Leech as a noun (paganism, Heathenry):
A healer.
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Leech as a verb (archaic, rare):
To treat, cure or heal.
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Leech as a noun (nautical):
The vertical edge of a square sail.
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Leech as a noun (nautical):
The aft edge of a triangular sail.