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tonic - use in sentences
Converse of object
- generalize: Partial seizures can progress into a generalized tonic clonic seizure.
- prove: However, a first-half goal - his first for the club - and a place in the fifth round proved a useful tonic.
Adjective modifier
- soothing: A soothing tonic indeed to then read Woolf's paean to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, Flush.
- digestive: An infusion taken two to three times daily is a digestive tonic or can be used externally to wash wounds.
- herbal: More... Hawthorn & Artichoke Formula A herbal tonic to help us survive in a polluted world.
- bitter: The tincture was formerly used as a bitter tonic and antiperiodic and had the reputation of curing leprosy.
- perfect: Romantic Weekend Breaks A romantic weekend break can be the perfect tonic.
- immune: Immune tonics are herbs that support you between bouts of ill-health and which hopefully prevent illness or reduce the severity.
Modifies a noun
- sol-fa: So he returned to Hungary with the Curwen books and over the next decade revised and refined tonic sol-fa.
- spasm: Tonic spasms may develop at 3 - 4 months.
- herb: Used as a tonic herb, when the body is under stress.
- seizure: Tonic seizure tend to last no longer than 10 seconds.
- wine: The drink of Airdrie is Buckfast, a 12 % proof tonic wine created in Devon by the Monks of Buckfast abbey.
- water: Drinking orange juice or tonic water may help to alleviate any cramp pain.
Noun used with modifier
- vodka: Frozen vodka tonics were served up a flight of broad mahogany steps in a nearby tree.
- nerve: Over a period of time, oats can act as a nerve tonic, reducing stress and aiding relaxation.
- liver: Consider using a liver tonic to help detoxify the body.
- spring: March 1987: " ' Phantom ' works like good, spring tonic " by Frank Hunter The Clayton Citizen Journal.
- heart: Hypertension, heart tonic, ongoing research into tumor therapy.
- brain: John Carey in the Sunday Times says of him: " The way Dawkins writes about science is not just a brain tonic.
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