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1. Designed to promote discipline
   "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional";
   - disciplinary, disciplinal
    
2. Tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition
   "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"

1. A device for treating injury or disease
   - restorative

Derived forms: correctives

See also: bettering, nonindulgent, strict

Type of: device