Meaning & use

Recure

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to cure, heal, or restore again; to recover from illness or misfortune

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The old ballad tells of a knight seeking a magic herb to recure his dying love.

No remedy, the physician warned, could recure a heart so thoroughly broken.

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A now-archaic word once common in Elizabethan poetry, including the work of Edmund Spenser; modern English speakers would simply say "cure" or "restore."

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