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curative

adj
/ˈkjʊɹ.ə.tɪv/

Etymology

From Middle French curatif.

  1. borrowed from curatif

Definitions

  1. Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.

    • The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.
    • He was just as interested in preventive care as he was in curative measures.

  2. Remediative.

    • a curative jury instruction to disregard the sheriff's testimony

  3. A substance that acts as a cure.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. of a verb, conveying the meaning "the agent makes a patient do something"

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Derived

curatively, curativeness, noncurative, subcurative

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA