curare

• curari, urare, urari, woorari, wurali

From a Cariban language; compare Kari'na urari, Trió urari, wïrari, Akawaio urari, Pemon urari, Macushi urari, referring to various vines of genus Strychnos.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kjʊˈɹɑː.ɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kjʊˈɹɑ.ɹi/

curare (usually uncountable, plural curares)

1. A plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content.
2. Other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae.
3. A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery.

• “curare”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “curare”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• Carreu, Ur-race, ur-race

Borrowed from Spanish curare.

• IPA^(key): /kyˈraː.rə/, /kuˈraː.rə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cu‧ra‧re

curare n (uncountable)

1. curare

From Latin cūrāre.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈra.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: cu‧rà‧re

• Audio:

  (file)

curàre (first-person singular present cùro, first-person singular past historic curài, past participle curàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

1. (medicine) to treat, cure (a patient, disease, etc.)

   Synonyms: medicare, fasciare, sanare, guarire

2. to look after

   Synonyms: badare, guardare, provvedere a, governare, seguire

   curare gli interessi di John

   to look after John's interests

3. to value; to take care of

   curare le amicizie ― to value friendships

4. (with [che + subj.] or [di + inf.]) to do in such a way (that); to make it so (that)

   Synonym: adoperarsi

   Curerò che lui non sappia nulla dell'accaduto.

   I will make sure that he won't know anything about what happened.

• curerà

cūrāre

1. inflection of cūrō:
   1. present active infinitive
   2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

• Hyphenation: cu‧ra‧re

curare m (uncountable)

1. curare (a substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine)

From cura +‎ -re.

curare f (plural curări)

1. cleaning, purification

• curare in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /kuˈɾaɾe/ [kuˈɾa.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -aɾe
• Syllabification: cu‧ra‧re

curare m (plural curares)

1. curare

curare

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of curar

• “curare”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

curare n

1. curare