curable

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cure/kjʊə(r)/

▶verb

• 1 make healthy again after suffering from a disease or medical condition.

  ■ end (a disease, condition, or problem) by treatment or remedial action.

• 2 preserve (meat, fish, tobacco, or an animal skin) by salting, drying, or smoking.

• 3 harden (rubber, plastic, concrete, etc.) after manufacture by a chemical process such as vulcanization.

▶noun

• 1 a substance, treatment, or remedy that cures a disease, condition, or problem.

  ■ restoration to health.

• 2 the process of curing meat, fish, rubber, etc.

• 3 a Christian minister's pastoral charge or area of responsibility for spiritual ministry.

  ■ a parish.

– derivatives
curability noun,
curable adjective,
curer noun.

– origin ME (in the senses ‘care, concern, responsibility’): from OFr. curer (v.), cure (n.), both from L. curare ‘take care of’, from cura ‘care’.