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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
restorative
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 the advisability of restorative proctocolectomy is, therefore, controversial.
▪ Methods Twenty three patients who had undergone restorative proctocolectomy with ileal reservoir were included in the study.
▪ The results of restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis are variable.
▪ The one symptom that is invariably improved by restorative proctocolectomy is that of urgency.
▪ Although restorative proctocolectomy is associated with a low mortality the morbidity is considerable.
▪ Even patients with diabetes mellitus complicated by autonomic neuropathy are not necessarily a contraindication to restorative proctocolectomy.
▪ Inevitably patients with Crohn's disease or indeterminate colitis will from time to time have restorative proctocolectomy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He's a great believer in the restorative power of short naps.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Early in the cycle, when progesterone levels are low, women generally get less deep, restorative sleep.
▪ The arts are essential for they have a recreative or restorative function.
▪ The surprise alone will be restorative.
▪ These establishments could be found in every district in Gallimaufry; places where citizens could relax in the vapours of restorative perfumes.
▪ We simply have to be aggressively restorative and aggressively managerial about our trees and forests.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Restorative

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.

Restorative

Restorative \Re*stor"a*tive\, n. Something which serves to restore; especially, a restorative medicine.
--Arbuthnot.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
restorative

late 14c., from Old French restoratif from restorer (see restore).

restorative

early 15c., from restorative (adj.), or from Medieval Latin restaurativum "a restorative."

Wiktionary
restorative

a. Serving to restore. n. 1 Something with restoring properties. 2 (context euphemistic English) An alcoholic drink, especially with tonic.

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WordNet
restorative

  1. adj. tending to impart new life and vigor to; "the renewing warmth of the sunshine" [syn: renewing, reviving, revitalizing, revitalising]

  2. promoting recuperation; "recuperative powers"; "strongly recuperative remedies"; "restorative effects of exercise" [syn: recuperative]

  3. n. a medicine that strengthens and invigorates [syn: tonic]

  4. a device for treating injury or disease [syn: corrective]

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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.