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Recuperative

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adj. In the way of recuperation.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Tending to recovery; pertaining to recovery, especially of strength or health.

In gas-burners, regenerative; having more than the common lighting power; having a heated air-supply.

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adj. promoting recuperation

Word Usage

"However they wanted to leave Plainfield with an "acute care center" (read Emergency Room) and a "long term recuperative facility" (read indigent patients), thereby allowing their Campus in Edison to thrive with the profit centers, while keeping the "rif-raff" element away from their campus."

Equivalent

healthful recuperatory

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

curative

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

vituperative

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

self-recuperative low-nox curative single-ended still-breathing