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

  1. Cure as a noun:

    A method, device or medication that restores good health.

  2. Cure as a noun:

    Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.

  3. Cure as a noun:

    A solution to a problem.

  4. Cure as a noun:

    A process of preservation, as by smoking.

  5. Cure as a noun:

    A process of solidification or gelling.

  6. 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.

  7. Cure as a noun (obsolete):

    Care, heed, or attention.

  8. Cure as a noun:

    Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.

  9. Cure as a noun:

    That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.

  1. Cure as a verb (transitive):

    To restore to health.

    Examples:

    "Unaided nature cured him."

  2. Cure as a verb (transitive):

    To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.

    Examples:

    "Unaided nature cured his ailments."

  3. Cure as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to be rid of (a defect).

    Examples:

    "Experience will cure him of his naïveté."

  4. 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."

  5. Cure as a verb (intransitive):

    To bring about a cure of any kind.

  6. 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."

  7. Cure as a verb:

    To preserve (food), typically by salting

  8. Cure as a verb (intransitive):

    To solidify or gel.

    Examples:

    "The parts were curing in the autoclave."

  9. Cure as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To become healed.

  10. Cure as a verb (obsolete):

    To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

  1. Leech as a noun:

    An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially .

  2. Leech as a noun (figuratively):

    A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.

  3. Leech as a noun (medicine, dated):

    A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.

  1. Leech as a verb (transitive):

    To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.

  2. 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."

  1. Leech as a noun (archaic):

    A physician.

  2. Leech as a noun (paganism, Heathenry):

    A healer.

  1. Leech as a verb (archaic, rare):

    To treat, cure or heal.

  1. Leech as a noun (nautical):

    The vertical edge of a square sail.

  2. Leech as a noun (nautical):

    The aft edge of a triangular sail.