cure for cancer
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2.8
- noun
- /kjʊr fɔr ˈkæn.sər/
:
cura del cáncer
- Researchers believe they are close to finding a cure for cancer that could save millions of lives.
If I met a monolingual Dutch speaker who had the cure for cancer, would I stop him from entering my British university?
- If I met a monolingual Dutch speaker who had the cure for cancer, would I stop him from entering my British university?
- More and more people believe, as PITA does, that even if it would lead to a cure for cancer or AIDS, it would be wrong to experiment on animals.
- No, if you do you want a cure for cancer, then then you might want to support that, right?
Examples
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He was going to find a cure for cancer.
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It might even be a cure for cancer.
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Uh, now, in other news, they found a cure for cancer.
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A few hours ago, the world had no cure for cancer.
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The cure for cancer lies within them.
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One day, I hope that researchers can find a cure for cancer.
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Well, you could work to find a cure for cancer so no one else has to suffer as you have.
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I'm currently trying to find a cure for cancer.
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Who knows, maybe the cure for cancer is somewhere in cannabis?
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The proverbial 'cure for cancer' has always eluded us.
Synonyms
A medical treatment that removes a disease completely
Antonyms
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Morphology
The noun 'cure' (a remedy that eliminates disease) combined with the prepositional phrase 'for cancer' transparently specifies a remedy targeting cancer; the overall meaning is directly derivable from the constituent words and their usual grammatical relations. This is a common, literal compositional pattern found across languages, so an average B1 learner who knows the parts would understand it.
Etymology
Cure for cancer gives a simple picture: the word cure is a medicine and cancer is a disease, so it imagines one treatment that removes all cancer cells from the body. That's why it means 'a treatment that removes all cancer'.