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HEEL-ing/ˈhiːlɪŋ/

Healing is the process of becoming healthy again, physical or emotional (often uncountable): a healing process; healing time. Heal is the verb (already in the dictionary). Recovery is close. Healing after the scandal. Medical and metaphorical. Do not use it for a patched PDF.

Meaning

The process of becoming healthy again; also emotional recovery.

Examples

• “Healing after the ward scandal will take more than a press line, unions said.”
• “The dressing protects the wound during healing, which is the clinical sense.”

Good to know

a healing process; healing of a wound / divide. Verb: heal. Close: recovery. Uncountable in many uses. Medicine and comment pieces.

Near in meaning

recovery

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