
adjective
- curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
- growing sound; getting well; mending.
noun
- the act or process of regaining health: a new drug to accelerate healing.
noun
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- the act or instance of healing onself
- (as modifier)the self-healing process
n.“restoration to health,” Old English hæling; see heal. Figurative sense of “restoration of wholeness” is from early 13c.; meaning “touch that cures” is from 1670s.