cure vs redress

cure

noun
  • Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury. 

  • That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate. 

  • A method, device or medication that restores good health. 

  • Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate. 

  • A solution to a problem. 

  • A process of solidification or gelling. 

  • A process of preservation, as by smoking. 

  • A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering. 

verb
  • To cause to be rid of (a defect). 

  • To bring about a cure of any kind. 

  • To preserve (food), typically by salting. 

  • To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use. 

  • To solidify or gel. 

  • To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end. 

  • To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use. 

  • To restore to health. 

redress

noun
  • A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation. 

  • One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser. 

  • The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation. 

  • The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set. 

verb
  • To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from. 

  • To put in order again; to set right; to revise. 

  • To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set. 

  • To dress again. 

  • To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. 

How often have the words cure and redress occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )