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View synonyms for healing

healing

[ hee-ling ]

adjective

  1. curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
  2. growing sound; getting well; mending.


noun

  1. the act or process of regaining health:

    a new drug to accelerate healing.

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Other Words From

  • healing·ly adverb
  • self-healing adjective
  • un·healing adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of healing1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English heelyng (adjective), helynge (noun); Old English hǣlinge (noun); equivalent to heal + -ing 2 for the adjective, heal + -ing 1 for the noun

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Example Sentences

But we also live with healing, with love, with activism, with a voice.

He thinks as much as he is healing his callers they are healing him.

“Raising the Turkish flag was very healing for me, and I think a little for Turkey as well,” says Hayes, choking up a bit.

He considered music to be a healing art, an “uplifting” art.

Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Griefby Martha Whitmore Hickman.

There is none to judge thy judgment to bind it up: thou hast no healing medicines.

But this is not the usual sense; it commonly means healing, cure, or remedy; see Guarison in Cotgrave.

He left the hall, and went out on the lawn where the sun shone, and where the pure spring air came to him like some healing balm.

The healing of the paralytic has been regarded as a type of the restoration of the soul paralyzed by sin.

Thanks to the solitude where this house was ensconced in, the period necessary for the healing of the child ran peacefully by.

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