reparatory
- adjective
- /ˈrɛpəˌrɑːtɔri/
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reparador
- The doctor's reparatory methods helped improve her patient's overall health.
Examples
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This reparatory approach stresses that traditional punishment is an ineffective means of securing the goods that are claimed as the justification for penal sanctions.
Academic text (1998) -
Persecutory guilt arouses propitiatory, depressive, reparatory behavior.
Academic text (1990) -
His reparatory efforts to fix the broken community were greatly appreciated.
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The therapy focused on reparatory actions that could enhance the well-being of the participants.
Synonyms
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5.6
Helping doctors fix a body part so it looks or works like before
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5.4
Helping someone feel better and stronger
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5.6
Can make damaged body parts or tissue grow back
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5.3
Helps heal a sickness or an injury
Making someone feel healthy and strong again
Helping to fix or improve something that is damaged
Antonyms
How Restorative
Surface Forms
Morphology
reparatory = repair (transparent) = repar + atory
The adjective is directly formed from the verb 'repair' with the adjective-forming suffix '-atory', so learners who know 'repair' can infer this meaning.
Etymology
The word reparatory comes from re- 'again' and parare 'make ready', the same root as repair and prepare. So a reparatory treatment 'makes things ready again' and helps restore health or condition.