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(n)
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
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(v)
(transitive) To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
(transitive) To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
(transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
(transitive) To construct or create anew, especially in an improved manner.
(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
(intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action.
(ambitransitive) To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.
To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
(transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward.
(physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
(transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
(transitive) To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
(transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty.
(transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.
To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
(transitive) To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).
(transitive) To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
(transitive) To remove (markings or information).
(intransitive) To vanish.
(transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
(transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
(UK politics, slang) Initialism of John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997.
To be or make a bridge over something.
(transitive) (also reflexive and figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
To apply a bandage to something.
(transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
To recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness.
(transitive) To restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc.
American and Oxford British English standard spelling of revitalise.
An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
(transitive) To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh.
(intransitive) To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc).
(transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
To give new energy or vigour to; to revitalise.
(intransitive, of an injury) To heal.
(obsolete, intransitive) To get better; to recover from an illness.
(transitive) To make better; improve.
(transitive) To heal again.
(intransitive, of a wound) To become completely healed; to become covered in fresh, new, healthy skin.
(intransitive) To convalesce; to recover health and strength.
(obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery
(archaic, transitive) To revive; to revivify.
(transitive, obsolete) To revive or revitalize; to bring back to life.
(archaic, countable) A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.
(transitive) To reanimate, bring back to life.
(transitive) To administer curare to.
(intransitive) To heal excessively or beyond the point of normal healing, usually resulting in the formation of scar tissue.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To recover from illness or other incapacitation.
(intransitive) To close (remove a gap) completely or fully.
(idiomatic) To recover from an illness or injury.
(transitive, set phrase) To restore (someone) to a sound, healthy, or otherwise favorable condition.
(transitive) To make young again; rejuvenate.
(transitive, obsolete) To heal or cure.
(transitive, dated) To make healthy.
(transitive) To make better; to improve; to solve a problem.
Alternative form of curarize. [(transitive) To administer curare to.]
(transitive) To experience (something) again; to live over again.
(transitive) To correct or improve (a deficiency or problem).
(transitive) To add health to; make whole or healthy; strengthen.
(transitive, ditransitive) To fetch something.
(transitive, archaic) To rejuvenate.
(transitive, nonstandard) To revive; to resurrect or give new life to.
Alternative form of rejuvenize. [(transitive, archaic) To rejuvenate.]
(transitive) To raise from the dead; to bring life back to.
(transitive) To save, rescue.
(transitive) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
(transitive) To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.
(Physical movement.) (intransitive) To orbit a central point (especially of a celestial body).
(transitive or intransitive with "on") To complete successfully; to fulfil (a promise).
(transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
(intransitive) To heal itself, or by itself.
(adj)
Of a person or an animal:
(transitive) To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.
(intransitive or reflexive) To wash or groom oneself in order to be more attractive.
To make active, lively, or interesting.
(transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
(transitive) To make therapeutic; to bring into the realm of therapy.
(intransitive, idiomatic) To become alive, to be given life; to be brought into existence.
(computing, ambitransitive) To reload (a document, especially a webpage) and show any new changes.
(intransitive, rare) To become flesh, to incarnate.
To make up; invent.
(transitive) To civilize again.
The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct or improve it
(transitive) To right, rectify, or ameliorate a relationship or situation.
(transitive) To cauterize again.
Free from error; true; accurate.
An act of improving, renewing, renovating, or revising something; an improvement, renovation, revamping, or revision.
(transitive, figurative) To revive.
(informal) Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs.
(transitive, rare) To ameliorate; to make better.
(transitive) To improve again.