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• present participle of heal.

healing

American  

[hee-ling] / ˈhi lɪŋ /

adjective

1. curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.

2. growing sound; getting well; mending.

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noun

• healings
  plural

1. the act or process of regaining health.

   a new drug to accelerate healing.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• self-healing
  adjective
• unhealing
  adjective
• healingly
  adverb

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• healings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of healing

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

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healing healings

She wrote: "Early indications are that the pain is very much improved - although I am still healing from the surgery itself so that also feels uncertain and frightening to admit - even to myself."

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

It’s especially gentle and accessible to people with disabilities, those healing injuries and older adults.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Jobe recommended total rest but after a month, with no sign of healing, he came up with an outside-the-box suggestion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

The healing power of music is here, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Joshua systematically filmed spectacular "healings" throughout his career.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024

Some called it the “Lourdes of America” in honor of the French shrine where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared followed by healings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

“The church tends to be very skeptical about claims of miraculous healings, until they can be proven that they’re not attributable to science or anything else.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

Each village had several shamans, who specialized in various divinations, healings and funeral rites.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2023

This should come as no surprise, for in Miss Lumley’s day, séances, Ouija boards, hypnotic healings, and the like were very much in fashion.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood