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Healing   /hˈilɪŋ/   Listen
Healing

noun
1.
The natural process by which the body repairs itself.
adjective
1.
Tending to cure or restore to health.  Synonyms: alterative, curative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic.  "Her gentle healing hand" , "Remedial surgery" , "A sanative environment of mountains and fresh air" , "A therapeutic agent" , "Therapeutic diets"


Heal

verb
(past & past part. healed; pres. part. healing)
1.
Heal or recover.  Synonym: mend.
2.
Get healthy again.
3.
Provide a cure for, make healthy again.  Synonyms: bring around, cure.  "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"



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"Healing" Quotes from Famous Books



... fervently, as we faced each other in that gloomy passage, and it somehow heartened me to note tears in his gray eyes. There was heart, then, under all his crabbedness. "I have suffered much of late both in spirit and flesh, and the very sight of you is as a gift of mercy unto me. No angel with healing in his wings could prove more welcome, yet I dislike leaving yonder food for the ...
— Prisoners of Chance - The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, - through His Love for a Lady of France • Randall Parrish
... of worldly interests roused suspicions and jealousies, making breaches in our love; and when the Chota Rani came in between us, these breaches seemed as if they would never be mended, but it always turned out that the healing forces at bottom proved more powerful than the ...
— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore
... very highest importance in the healing art, is a work just issued by the venerable Professor Buchanan. We have read the book from cover to cover with unabated attention; and it is replete with ideas, suggestions, and practical hints, and conclusions of eminent value to every practitioner who is himself ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 - Volume 1, Number 1 • Various
... my condition, and seemed greatly shocked at the brutal neglect I had experienced. He told me to be of good courage; that it was not yet too late to arrest the progress of my disease. He commenced his healing operations by administering a copious dose of laudanum, which immediately relieved my pain and threw me into a refreshing sleep. He furnished me with other medicines, ordered me food suitable to my condition, and in ...
— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper
... my sisterling," said he, looking up to the newcomer. "They say you burgher women have ways of healing the sick. Look at her. Think you you ...
— The Dove in the Eagle's Nest • Charlotte M. Yonge


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