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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restoring |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, alteration, ameliorating, bettering, correcting, curing, enhancing, fixing, freshening, helping, patching up, rebuilding, rectifying, refreshing, relieving, remedying, remodeling, renewing, renovating, renovation, repair, repairing, restoration, reviving, tinkering |
| Main Entry: | adjustment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adaptation |
| Synonyms: | acclimation, acclimatization, alteration, arrangement, balancing, conformance, correcting, fitting, fixing, improvement, mending, modification, ordering, organization, organizing, orientation, readjustment, redress, regulating, regulation, repairing, setting, shaping, standardization, turning |
| Main Entry: | amendment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correction, improvement |
| Synonyms: | alteration, amelioration, betterment, change, correction, enhancement, improvement, mending, modification, rectification, reform, reformation, remedy, repair, revision |
| Antonyms: | worsening |
| Main Entry: | better |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | improved in health |
| Synonyms: | convalescent, cured, fitter, fully recovered, healthier, improving, less ill, mending, more healthy, on the comeback trail, on the mend, on the road to recovery, out of the woods, over the hump, progressing, recovering, stronger, well |
| Notes: | better is greater in excellence or higher in quality; more useful; more highly skilled; healthier than before - while bettor is someone who bets |
| Antonyms: | more ill, sicker, unhealthy, worse |
| Main Entry: | convalescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | improving, recuperating |
| Synonyms: | ambulatory, discharged, dismissed, gaining strength, getting better, getting over something, getting well, healing, mending, on the mend, past crisis, perked up, rallying, recovering, rejuvenated, rejuvenating, released, restored, strengthening |
| Antonyms: | failing, faltering, regressing, sickly, weak, worsening |
| Main Entry: | correction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adjustment; fixing |
| Synonyms: | alteration, amelioration, amending, amendment, changing, editing, emendation, improvement, indemnification, mending, modification, rectification, redress, reexamination, remodeling, repair, reparation, rereading, revisal, revising, righting |
| Antonyms: | blunder, goof, mistake |
| Main Entry: | fixing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repairing |
| Synonyms: | adapting, adjusting, adjustment, arranging, mending, ordering, repairing |
| Main Entry: | healing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restorative |
| Synonyms: | curative, curing, invigorating, medicinal, mending, remedial |
| Notes: | healing is a process in which an organism's health is restored; curing is a method that promotes healing |
| Main Entry: | recovering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | getting better |
| Synonyms: | better, convalescent, improved, improving, mending, on the mend, recuperating |
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