healing
noun
[ ˈhiːlɪŋ ]
• the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again.
• "the gift of healing"
healing
adjective
• tending to heal; therapeutic.
• "a healing experience"
Similar:
alleviate,
assuage,
palliate,
relieve,
ameliorate,
ease,
help,
soften,
lessen,
mitigate,
attenuate,
allay,
salve,
heal
verb
• cause (a wound, injury, or person) to become sound or healthy again.
• "his concern is to heal sick people"
Similar:
make better,
make well,
cure,
treat successfully,
restore to health,
get someone back on their feet,
make good,
mend,
remedy,
restore,
curative,
therapeutic,
medicinal,
remedial,
curing,
corrective,
reparative,
restorative,
tonic,
health-giving,
healthful,
beneficial,
salubrious,
sanative,
analeptic,
iatric,
Origin:
Old English hǣlan (in the sense ‘restore to sound health’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heelen and German heilen, also to whole.
