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    heal·ing
    /ˈhēliNG/

    noun

    • 1. the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again: "the gift of healing"

    adjective

    • 1. tending to heal; therapeutic: "a healing experience"

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  2. The meaning of HEAL is to make free from injury or disease : to make sound or whole. How to use heal in a sentence.

  3. the process of becoming well again, especially after a cut or other injury, or of making someone well again : This herb has been used in healing for centuries. Wounds should be covered with a gauze dressing while healing occurs. the process in which a bad situation or painful emotion ends or improves:

  4. Healing is the process of getting well again, especially after a wound or injury. Healing takes around a week. Blood flows to the damaged area so healing occurs.

  5. to make or become well again, especially after a cut or other injury: heal (up) The wounds were gradually healing (up). The plaster cast helps to heal the broken bone. If a bad situation or painful emotion heals, it ends or improves, and if something heals it, it makes it end or improve:

  6. The meaning of HEALING is the act or process of curing or of restoring to health. How to use healing in a sentence.

  7. If you heal something such as a rift or a wound, or if it heals, the situation is put right so that people are friendly or happy again. Today Sophie and her sister have healed the family rift and visit their family every weekend.

  8. noun. /ˈhiːlɪŋ/ [uncountable] the process of becoming or making somebody/something healthy again; the process of getting better after an emotional shock. the healing process. emotional healing. Homeopathy aims to reinforce the body’s natural healing powers. Rest is an important part of the healing process.

  9. a. To recover from an illness or injury; return to health. b. To experience relief from emotional distress: gave the grieving family time to heal. 2. To be relieved or eliminated: The rift between them finally healed. [Middle English healen, from Old English hǣlan; see kailo- in Indo-European roots.] heal′a·ble adj.

  10. noun. the natural process by which the body repairs itself. see more. gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury. healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones.

  11. Sep 28, 2024 · Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. (intransitive) To become better or healthy again. Bandages allow cuts to heal. (transitive, figurative) To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt. to heal dissensions. 1945, United States.