healing

[ hee-ling ]
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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.

Origin of healing

1
First recorded before 1000; Middle English heelyng (adjective), helynge (noun); Old English hǣlinge (noun); equivalent to heal + -ing2 for the adjective, heal + -ing1 for the noun

Other words from healing

  • heal·ing·ly, adverb
  • self-healing, adjective
  • un·heal·ing, adjective

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How to use healing in a sentence

  • It was as though she could not tell whether those tears were his, or had come healingly into her own dry eyes.

    Rough-Hewn | Dorothy Canfield
  • The blue tides rose and fell at Clark's Hills, the summer sun shone healingly down upon Rachael's sick heart and soul.

    The Heart of Rachael | Kathleen Norris
  • Warm as wadding it lay healingly round his tired ego, protecting it from jars and pressure.

    On the Seaboard | August Strindberg