dictionary help| recure | medical dictionary |
1. To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
2. To recover; to regain; to repossess. "When their powers, impaired through labour long, With due repast, they had recured well." (Spenser)
3. To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair. "In western waves his weary wagon did recure." (Spenser)
4. To be a cure for; to remedy. "No medicine Might avail his sickness to recure." (Lydgate)
Origin: Cf. Recover.
(01 Mar 1998)
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