English-German translations for curative

• heilend
  Auf Grund der Probleme der Arbeitslosigkeit, insbesondere der Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit überall in Europa, brauchen wir sowohl vorbeugende als auch heilende Maßnahmen für die Langzeitarbeitslosen. Because of the problems of unemployment, in particular long-term unemployment across Europe, we must have preventative as well as curative measures for the long-term unemployed.
• heilkräftig
  Beinahe täglich muß ein Tiger für die Herstellung sogenannter heilkräftiger Pulver und Pillen herhalten. Almost every day, one more tiger is lost, processed into supposedly curative powders and pills.

Definition of curative

• Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness
• A substance that acts as a cure
• of a verb, conveying the meaning "the agent makes a patient do something

Examples

• The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.

Related words

• noncurative
• curative power
• curative quality