curative
a curative agent; remedy.
Origin of curative
1Other words from curative
- cur·a·tive·ly, adverb
- non·cur·a·tive, adjective
- non·cur·a·tive·ly, adverb
- non·cur·a·tive·ness, noun
- sub·cur·a·tive, noun, adjective
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How to use curative in a sentence
Hannah’s disability is a kind of liability for the curative powers from which Papa derives his reputation and on whose earning power the family depends.
The spellbinding ‘Revival Season’ makes Monica West an author to watch | Naomi Jackson | May 28, 2021 | Washington PostTherefore inflammation was merely a cellular response to an external agent, a body’s curative reaction.
The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze - Issue 100: Outsiders | Lina Zeldovich | May 19, 2021 | NautilusThe healthcare economist Zack Cooper is not as optimistic about the curative powers of price transparency.
How to Fix the Hot Mess of U.S. Healthcare (Ep. 456) | Stephen J. Dubner | April 1, 2021 | FreakonomicsIn his 2019 essay on The Healing Power of Gardens, the late neurologist Oliver Sacks tried to grasp the mysterious curative effects of nature on the human body.
The science behind why people turn to gardening to cope with stress | Anne Quito | January 24, 2021 | QuartzThe Boston Globe, however, concluded that the serum “is believed to be preventative as well as curative,” suggesting that this measure could decrease the number of cases and deaths, thus bringing the epidemic under control.
History reminds us that vaccines alone don’t end pandemics | E. Thomas Ewing | November 30, 2020 | Washington Post
But in all cases, the appropriate course of antibiotics has been curative.
Predator Doctors Take Advantage of Patients With ‘Chronic Lyme’ Scam | Russell Saunders | September 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor thousands of years men and women in many cultures have used cannabis as a curative and a source of fiber and oil.
Victory for Pot Means Beginning of the End of Our Crazy Drug War | Martin A. Lee | November 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTNora could arm and disarm within a sentence, could wield a barb and its curative salve within a phrase.
Remembering Nora Ephron as Our Dorothy Parker, but More | Stephen Schiff | June 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTNobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn credited kombucha with curative properties in his novel The Cancer Ward.
Is Celebrity Favorite Kombucha Really a Health and Anti-Aging Cure? | Anneli Rufus | February 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSince 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.
Baron d'Holbach | Max Pearson CushingSaliva, like tears, had creative and therefore curative qualities; it also expelled and injured demons and brought good luck.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. MackenzieThe defendant had agreed to send for the curative charm to a wise woman in the mountains.
Irish Witchcraft and Demonology | St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) SeymourThis was a curative act, authorizing elections and prescribing methods of registration.
The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete | General Philip Henry SheridanAn interesting Cherokee myth is that which recounts the origin of disease, and the consequent institution of curative medicine.
The Myths of the North American Indians | Lewis Spence
British Dictionary definitions for curative
/ (ˈkjʊərətɪv) /
able or tending to cure
anything able to heal or cure
Derived forms of curative
- curatively, adverb
- curativeness, noun
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