Renew vs Cure - What's the difference?
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(lb) To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.
*c.1596-98 , ,
*:In such a night / Medea gather’d the enchanted herbs / That did renew old AEson.
(lb) To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of.
(lb) To make new spiritually; to regenerate.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), , Romans 12.2:
*:And fassion not youre selves lyke vnto this worlde: But be ye chaunged in youre shape by the renuynge of youre wittes that ye maye fele what thynge that good yt acceptable and perfaycte will of god is.
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*:to such as are in fear they strike a great impression, renew many times, and recal such chimeras and terrible fictions into their minds.
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*2010 September, Michael Allen, "St. Louis Preservation Fund", , ISSN 1090-5723, Vol.16, Is.9, p.74:
(lb) To begin again; to recommence.
*, IV.8:
*:Then gan he all this storie to renew , / And tell the course of his captivitie.
*1660 , (John Dryden), translating Virgil, (apparently from Eclogue 4''), a snippet of translation used to introduce Dryden's ''
*:The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, / Renews its finished course ; Saturnian times / Roll round again.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
(lb) To repeat.
*1674 , (John Milton), :
*:The birds their notes renew , and bleating herds / Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
To extend a period of loan, especially a library book that is due to be returned.
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A method, device or medication that restores good health.
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, title= Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Luke xii. 32
A solution to a problem.
* Dryden
* Bishop Hurd
A process of preservation, as by smoking.
A process of solidification or gelling.
(engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
(obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
* Chaucer
* Fuller
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
* (rfdate) Spelman
That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.
To restore to health.
To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
* (William Shakespeare)
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, title= To cause to be rid of (a defect).
To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
To bring about a of any kind.
To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
To solidify or gel.
(obsolete) To become healed.
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
Renew is a related term of cure.
As verbs the difference between renew and cure
is that renew is (lb) to make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition while cure is .As a noun cure is
priest bearing the responsibility of a parish a vicar (church of england).renew
English
Verb
(en verb)II.2.6.ii:
- Renewing neighborhoods dealing with vacant buildings badly need options other than demolition or dangerous vacant spaces.
Astræa Redux: A poem on the happy restoration and return of His Sacred Majesty Charles II
Synonyms
* See alsoAnagrams
*cure
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
- Past hope! past cure !
- I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
- Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure .
- the proper cure of such prejudices
- Of study took he most cure and most heed.
- vicarages of great cure , but small value
- The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
Derived terms
* anti-cure * cure is worse than the disease * cureless * miscure * sweetcure * take the cure * water cureVerb
(cur)- Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure .
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
- One desperate grief cures with another's languish.