curative
IPA: kjˈʊrʌtɪv
noun
- A substance that acts as a cure.
adjective
- Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
- (figurative, by extension) Remediative.
- (grammar) of a verb, conveying the meaning "the agent makes a patient do something"
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Examples of "curative" in Sentences
- Surgery is the only curative option.
- The curative may additionally comprise sulfur.
- Abdominal reexploration and drainage of bile is curative.
- It is often thought that medicine is the curative process.
- The main treatment is surgical removal and is usually curative.
- Curative Surgical treatment can be offered if the tumor is localized.
- And yet if I suffer it can only be with what I may call a curative suffering.
- These curative treatments attempt to destroy or remove the damaged epithelium.
- I am not bitter that the trial failed, because we never believed the "curative" description.
- If that is dismissed, another plea--termed a curative petition--for reconsidering a judgment can be filed.
- Filing a legal challenge known as a curative amendment, he has claimed the ordinance is invalid because it illegally excludes prisons.
- And, she offered to submit what's known as a curative instruction to the jury--telling them something that would help them not remember the hour of testimony where it looked like Mr. Arneson was a complete and total liar.
- And, she offered to submit what's known as a curative instruction to the jury -- telling them something that would help them not remember the hour of testimony where it looked like Mr. Arneson was a complete and total liar.
- The main task of the water supply operation and maintenance committee should be to ensure that the caretaker (and his staff) operate the system in accordance with a preventive maintenance concept (See 11.9) and by using appropriate and cost-effective "curative" procedures whenever necessary.
- It is perhaps too much to expect one in the midst of an illness to start at once with what we may call the curative attitude, although it could be done, but if those who are now well and strong will read and get a good understanding of this healthy way of facing an illness, and get it into their subconscious minds, they will find that if at any time they should be unfortunate enough to be attacked with illness, they can use the knowledge to very real advantage, and -- what is more -- they can, with the right tact, help others to use it also.
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