Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: curative
IPA transcription: [kj'ʊɹətɪv]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic
    Meaning: tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
    Meaning: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
Usage examples
  • likewise, Apis will prove a curative agent.
  • These are the only exceptions to the curative power of this drug.
  • Thanks to the curative powers of Apis, scarlatina has ceased to be a scourge to childhood.
  • The curative indications contained in the "American Provings," have been confirmed by my own experience.
  • Saliva, like tears, had creative and therefore curative qualities; it also expelled and injured demons and brought good luck.
  • In this way I succeeded in developing the curative powers of Apis, so that in a few days a gradual improvement, however slight, became perceptible to the careful observer.
  • Their veterinary practice was mostly by charms and incantations; and when a person believed himself bewitched, a shot at the image of the witch with a bullet melted out of a half-dollar was the favorite curative agency.