"cure cancer" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: cures cancer [present, singular, third-person], curing cancer [participle, present], cured cancer [participle, past], cured cancer [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|cures cancer|curing cancer|cured cancer|cured cancer}} cure cancer (third-person singular simple present cures cancer, present participle curing cancer, simple past and past participle cured cancer)
  1. (informal, figurative) To achieve an impossible goal or to attain the ultimate triumph over a seemingly insurmountable, multifaceted, and deeply entrenched problem. Tags: figuratively, informal Related terms: cure for cancer
    Sense id: en-cure_cancer-en-verb-WRDmaWwn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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