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.

Other Word Forms

• healingly adverb
• self-healing adjective
• unhealing adjective

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

Example Sentences

Her friends urged her to reframe the tin’s meaning: Make it a tool of healing, instead of hurt, they suggested; strip it of its associations with betrayal and embrace it as a symbol of resilience.

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Writing this email and, hopefully, having your brother attend a therapy or mediation together is the first, giant leap of faith to healing your relationship.

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This device uses a specialized microneedle system that delivers a therapeutic molecule directly into damaged heart tissue, encouraging healing while limiting effects on the rest of the body.

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"If we remain silent and lose the truth... we will never have the strength as a society to embark on a path to healing," Janev was quoted by local media as telling the court.

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“I started realizing that the class was really a healing space for a lot of people,” Barcelo says.

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