cure vs medicine

medicine vs cure

cure and medicine both are nouns.

cure and medicine both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cure	Yes	No	Yes	No
medicine	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, medicine is a hypernym of cure; that is, medicine is a word with a broader meaning than cure:

cure: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

Other hypernyms of cure include medicament, medication, medicinal drug.

cure (noun)	medicine (noun)
a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain	the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
	punishment for one's actions
	(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
	the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

cure (verb)	medicine (verb)
provide a cure for, make healthy again	treat medicinally, treat with medicine
prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve
be or become preserved
make (substances) hard and improve their usability

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