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curative
/ ˈkjʊərətɪv /
adjective
- able or tending to cure
noun
- anything able to heal or cure
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Derived Forms
- ˈcurativeness, noun
- ˈcuratively, adverb
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Other Words From
- cura·tive·ly adverb
- non·cura·tive adjective
- non·cura·tive·ly adverb
- non·cura·tive·ness noun
- sub·cura·tive noun adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
But in all cases, the appropriate course of antibiotics has been curative.
For thousands of years men and women in many cultures have used cannabis as a curative and a source of fiber and oil.
Nora could arm and disarm within a sentence, could wield a barb and its curative salve within a phrase.
Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn credited kombucha with curative properties in his novel The Cancer Ward.
Since the liver regenerates, “that can be curative—or at least it can let patients do a lot better.”
Frret's were preventive, Holbach's curative, but appear to be rather strong dose for a dvote.
Saliva, like tears, had creative and therefore curative qualities; it also expelled and injured demons and brought good luck.
The defendant had agreed to send for the curative charm to a wise woman in the mountains.
This was a curative act, authorizing elections and prescribing methods of registration.
An interesting Cherokee myth is that which recounts the origin of disease, and the consequent institution of curative medicine.
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