corrective
kuh rek tiv
- n a device for treating injury or disease
- s designed to promote discipline
the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional - s tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition
corrective measures
corrective lenses
- The 17th in a family of 19 children, Wilma had a series of crippling childhood diseases, did not walk until she was eight, and then had to wear a hightop, corrective shoe.
- Pollution fines are so low that factories often elect to pay them rather than take corrective measures.
- He was among many Muslim autocrats in this century to embrace a mission designed as a corrective to the West.