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restorative
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Word definitions for restorative in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN proctocolectomy ▪ Three exceptions to this pattern were low pouch vaginal or pouch perineal fistulas that developed 4-6 months after restorative proctocolectomy . ▪ The outcome of these patients is uncertain and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Serving to restore. n. 1 Something with restoring properties. 2 (context euphemistic English) An alcoholic drink, especially with tonic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from restorative (adj.), or from Medieval Latin restaurativum "a restorative."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. tending to impart new life and vigor to; "the renewing warmth of the sunshine" [syn: renewing , reviving , revitalizing , revitalising ] promoting recuperation; "recuperative powers"; "strongly recuperative remedies"; "restorative effects of exercise" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Restorative \Re*stor"a*tive\ (r?*st?r"?*t?v), a. [Cf. F. restoratif.] Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore. Destroys life's enemy, Hunger, with sweet restorative delight. --Milton.
Usage examples of restorative.
Well, he had been in dire need of the rest, and she had treated him with assorted minor medical aids including a restorative heat lamp, so that he really felt much better now.
Ac-cording to the blueprints, the vault is located directly under the hydrotherapy rooms, close enough, apparently, for the stone to have a restorative effect.
Fatigued from the misfired cone of cold and the struggle in the stream, her body had collapsed into a restorative sleep as soon as immediate danger passed.
True, many chronic diseases are obstinate, yet a course of restorative medication persistently followed, promises a fortunate issue in this tractile temperament.
I having administered a simple restorative, the girl sighed shudderingly and opened her eyes, was quite pathetic.
It is for this reason that neither time nor pains have been spared in perfecting an alterative, tonic, nutritive, restorative, and antiseptic compound, to which Dr.
But the conception of purgatory as it was held by the early Christians, whether orthodox Fathers or heretical sects, was merely the just and necessary result of applying to the subject of future punishment the two ethical ideas that punishment should partake of degrees proportioned to guilt, and that it should be restorative.
The usual clutter lay about-opened cartons oozing packing material, a variety of tools, heaps of rags, bottles of cleaning compounds and restoratives for various surfaces.
Cleaned up reasonably well, filled with broad spectrum antibiotics, antimycotics and antivirals, his arm and back sprayed with a light topical anesthetic and his system responding to a mild hypospray restorative, Riker had to admit the time taken was well spent.
Cleaned up reas onably well, filled with broad spectrum antibiotics, antimycotics and antivirals, his arm and back sprayed with a light topical anesthetic and his system responding to a mild hypospray restorative, Riker had to admit the time taken was well spent.
Elizara was 'porting restorative drinks to the Rowan, who was ashen-faced, and to the stunned Admiral while Gollee apologized profusely to Gktmglnt for both the intrusion and his rough handling of the Mrdini's person.
One of those engraving-advertisements, along with pills for developing one’s bust, and the great eagle flying over the mountains with the restorative cordial in its talons, Robur le Conquerant, R.
I essayed a restorative deep breath, but the tightness of the whalebone corseting made it come out as a strangled gasp.
The restorative was richly tasty, and its warmth immediately crept to her cold extremities, which Killashandra had not recognized as being wind sore.
Spared Desi the Second's more deleterious culinary fare, refreshed by large amounts of wholesome, restorative food, exercise, and a decent night's sleep without spiders crawling up the walls, all the members of the unit were fully recovered and in exuberant spirits.