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sanative

adjective as in curing

Strong match

adjective as in sanitary

adjective as in therapeutic

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Example Sentences

The incident came at a particularly sanative time in France, which is still reeling from a deadly assault by Islamic State extremists last month.

Absolutely plastered … send us your favourite sanative songs.

Let him eschew such hyper-erudite monstrosities—let him stick to the 'recital' of sane and sanative music, and he will attain a reputation above all contemporary musical mono-facturers—and what is more, deserve it.'

After this, they would hang him up again, so that the medicine of the rope, the board, and the bucket, had a fair opportunity to exert their sanative properties.

He believed primarily in a sanative effluence, and his method seems to have been a combination of passes, suggestion, and a supposed "metallotherapy" or "magneto-therapy"—the celebrated baquet—which no doubt was merely a form of suggestion.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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