corrective (n.)

  1. a device for treating injury or disease

    [ Syn: restorative ]

    corrective (adj.)

  1. designed to promote discipline; the teachers action was corrective rather than instructional; disciplinal measures; the mother was stern and disciplinary

    [ Syn: disciplinary , disciplinal ]

  2. tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; corrective measures; corrective lenses'

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