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cure-all

/ˈkjʊəɹɔːl/

cure-all noun: synonym of panacea: a medicine or practice that cures all human ailments.

Noun

cure-all (plural cure-alls)

  1. (colloquial) Synonym of panacea: a medicine or practice that cures all human ailments.
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    Synonyms:
    panacea

cure-all meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

cure-all in Tamil

சஞ்சீவி, சர்வரோகநிவாரணி, அனைத்து நோய் மருந்து, குருமருந்து, முப்பூ

cure-all in Malayalam

cure for all ills, panacea, sovereign remedy
സർവ്വരോഗസംഹാരി, സർവ്വരോഗസംഹാരിണി, സർവ്വരോഗനിവാരിണി, ദിവ്യൗഷധി, സർവ്വരോഗശമനൗഷധം, ഒറ്റമൂലി

Synonyms of cure-all

Forms of cure-all

pluralcure-alls
alternative formcureall

Origin of cure-all

From cure + -all.

Questions about cure-all

What does cure-all mean?
Cure-all means synonym of panacea: a medicine or practice that cures all human ailments.
What is cure-all in Tamil?
Cure-all in Tamil is சஞ்சீவி, சர்வரோகநிவாரணி, அனைத்து நோய் மருந்து. See Cure-all meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cure-all?
Cure-all is a noun.
How do you pronounce cure-all?
Cure-all is pronounced /ˈkjʊəɹɔːl/.
What is the plural of cure-all?
The plural of cure-all is cure-alls.

Words near cure-all in the dictionary

  1. cure down
  2. cure for cancer
  3. cure time
  4. cure times
  5. cure up
  6. cure-all
  7. cure-alls
  8. cure-fir merger
  9. cure-nurse merger
  10. cureall
  11. curealls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cure-all (page history and authors); cure-all (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cure-all (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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