| 单词 | restorative |
| 释义 | restorative (once / 5866 pages) adjn Restorative things give you energy or make you feel better. Your dad might have a favorite restorative chicken soup he makes you whenever you have a cold. Antibiotics can be restorative to a patient with an infection, and a good night's sleep is almost always restorative, no matter how tired you are. If something brings you back to life or helps you recover, it's restorative. Sometimes people use this word as a noun, to mean "medicine for strength." Restorative has a Latin root, restaurare, "repair, rebuild, or renew." WORD FAMILYrestorative: restoratives+/restoration: restorations/restore: restoration, restorative, restored, restorer, restores, restoring/restorer: restorers USAGE EXAMPLESCooking like this is sometimes called comfort food, but I think of the menu and everything else about the Odeon as restorative. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) Barnips Lozenges, Coltsfoot Rock, and Teddy Gray's Herbal Tablets are among the old-fashioned restoratives still occupying a place in our medicine cabinets. BBC(Dec 26, 2016) The officer with the most opportunities to refer youth to restorative justice is the school resource officer. Washington Times(Dec 10, 2016) 1adj tending to impart new life and vigor to Syn renewing, revitalising, revitalizing, reviving invigorating imparting strength and vitality 2adj promoting recuperation restorative effects of exercise Syn recuperative healthful conducive to good health of body or mind 3n a device for treating injury or disease Syn|Hypo|Hyper corrective pack a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect face pack, packa cream that cleanses and tones the skin pick-me-up, pickupanything with restorative powers prosthesis, prosthetic devicecorrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body glass eyeprosthesis consisting of an artificial eye made of glass implanta prosthesis placed permanently in tissue obturatora prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate) leg, peg, pegleg, wooden lega prosthesis that replaces a missing leg device an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose 4n a medicine that strengthens and invigorates Syn|Hypo|Hyper tonic bracer, pick-me-up a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor) medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease |
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