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alterative::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
Examples of alterative
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Morris and other moderate Senators prepared their own alterative set of tax cuts.
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Another alterative would construct horizontal nets about 20 feet below the sidewalk.
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The program is an alterative to Family Court for first-time offenders younger than 16.
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So long as we hoard our own reserves, we are signaling that alterative are not viable.
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Our alterative fuel technology sits alongside other fuel technologies.
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This alterative model of genetics helps explain other aspects of schizophrenia as well.
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Many specialists in the field flatly refuse to consider alterative authorship theories.
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An alterative route could be to have a Vexillogical portal instead.
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That plan mentioned no alterative route to the track and included only I-71 in its entrance strategy.
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- Curative: 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"
- A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations; Causing alteration. Specifically: Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. --Burton
- (Alteratives) in certain doses, work a gradual cure by restoring the healthy functions of different organs.
- Also known as blood purifiers. Herbs that gradually restore health and vitality to the body: burdock, red clover, nettle, oregon grape, alfalfa, gota kola, marshmallow, dong quai, and ginseng.
- Gradually restores the proper function of the body. They act to alter the body's processes of metabolism so tissues can best deal with everything from nutrition to elimination.
- A substance that produces a gradual, beneficial change in the body.
- (action) improves the elimination of metabolic waste and in so doing restores normal body functions. (See also depurative).
- An alterative means something that restores health.
- A medicinal substance that gradually restores health.
