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Restorative
Definitions
- 1 Serving to restore.
"After a long day working in the fields Clarence took comfort in a restorative pint of beer."
- 1 promoting recuperation wordnet
- 2 tending to impart new life and vigor to wordnet
- 1 Something with restoring properties.
"Marianne’s joy was almost a degree beyond happiness, so great was the perturbation of her spirits and her impatience to be gone. Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive."
- 2 a device for treating injury or disease wordnet
- 3 An alcoholic drink, especially with tonic. euphemistic
"“Well, let's hope you're right, darling. In the meantime,” said Kipper, “if I don't get that whisky-and-soda soon, I shall disintegrate. Would you mind if I went in search of it, Mrs Travers?” “It's the very thing I was about to suggest myself. Dash along and drink your fill, my unhappy young stag at eve.” “I'm feeling rather like a restorative, too,” said Bobbie. “Me also,” I said, swept along on the tide of the popular movement. “Though I would advise,” I said, when we were outside, “making it port. More authority.”"
- 4 a medicine that strengthens and invigorates wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English restoratif, restoratyve, from Old French restoratif, restauratif and Medieval Latin restaurātīvus, equivalent to restore + -ative.
From Middle English restoratif, restoratyve, from Old French restoratif, restauratif and Medieval Latin restaurātīvus, equivalent to restore + -ative.
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