The difference between Cure and Remedy
When used as nouns, cure means a method, device or medication that restores good health, whereas remedy means something that corrects or counteracts.
When used as verbs, cure means to restore to health, whereas remedy means to provide or serve as a remedy for.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cure and Remedy
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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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Remedy as a noun:
Something that corrects or counteracts.
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Remedy as a noun (legal):
The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
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Remedy as a noun:
A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
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Remedy as a noun:
The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
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Remedy as a verb (transitive):
To provide or serve as a remedy for.