Cure and Treat

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Cure verb - To bring about recovery from.

Usage example: do you have anything that will cure my headache?

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Treat is a synonym for cure in heal topic. In some cases you can use "Treat" instead a verb "Cure", when it comes to topics like medicine.

Nearby Words: cured, curing, cureless, curable, curability

Treat verb - To give medical treatment to.

Usage example: a nurse treating a patient

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Cure is a synonym for treat in doctor topic. You can use "Cure" instead a verb "Treat".

Nearby Words: treatment, treated, treating, treatable

rare	rare cure	rare treat
best	best cure	best treat
complete	complete cure	complete treat
true	true cure	true treat
Other adjectives: single, cheap, actual, real, great, bad, important, new, experimental, traditional, last, red, favorite.

disease	cure disease	treat disease
illness	cure illness	treat illness
character	cure character	treat character
people	cure people	treat people
Other words: condition, death, characters, wound, cancer, anyone, everyone, son, patients, injuries, wounds.

One Wastrel, formerly a surgeon, mentions that a large portion of the new generation of doctors don't even know how to cure or treat people anymore, they just give them stronger Joy to take so the patient won't realize they are sick.

Source: Video Game / We Happy Few
Though Daniel used a false equivalence, Alan struggles with how easily he made the decision to kill, particularly since it's his job to treat and cure.

Source: Not So Different / Live-Action TV
Diseases which are uninfluenced by mood or emotion will not be affected by the placebo effect (people will temporarily feel better but not be better), which can be dangerous if a pseudoscience such as homeopathy tries to claim that it can cure or treat an actual, dangerous disease or condition.

Source: Achievements in Ignorance

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