noun
- The natural process by which the body repairs itself.
verb
- Heal or recover.
- usage: "My broken leg is mending"
- Get healthy again.
- usage: "The wound is healing slowly"
- synonyms: heal
- Provide a cure for, make healthy again.
- usage: "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"
- synonyms: bring around, cure, heal
adjective
- Tending to cure or restore to health.
- usage: "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets"
- synonyms: curative, alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic
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