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Healing

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Healthful 84% connected

Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.

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Healthful 84% connected

Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 1

Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Conglutination 76% connected

A gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union.

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Convalescence 76% connected

Alt. of Convalescency

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Recovery 76% connected

The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.

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Recuperation 76% connected

Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.

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Union 76% connected

The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.

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Derivationally related 6

Cure 74% connected

Care, heed, or attention.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Cure 74% connected

Care, heed, or attention.

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Heal 74% connected

To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Heal 74% connected

To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Mend 74% connected

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Mend 74% connected

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 5

Alterative 92% connected

Causing ateration.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Curative 92% connected

Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Remedial 92% connected

Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sanative 92% connected

Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Therapeutic 92% connected

Alt. of Therapeutical

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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