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Answer for the clue "Getting well ", 7 letters:
healing

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Word definitions for healing in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The process where the cells in the body regenerate and repair themselves. 2 An act of healing, as by a faith healer. 3 The psychological process of dealing with a problem or problems. vb. (present participle of heal English)

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Healing (literally meaning to make whole ) is the process of the restoration of health from an unbalanced, diseased or damaged organism. With physical damage or disease suffered by an organism, healing involves the repair of living tissue , organs and the ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Healing \Heal"ing\, a. Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words. Here healing dews and balms abound. --Keble.

Usage examples of healing.

What the average Southlander cares about is whether those ash bows that are so good for hunting and those silk scarves the women love and those great cheeses and ales that come out of Varfleet and those healing plants grown on the Streleheim can find their way south to them!

The healing amnionic fluid generated by the spore-forming glands, after the transparent amber sphere had enclosed him, offered Lavon his only chance.

Angelika, our skin specialist, created this recipe to be filling, antiaging, and healing for most skin problems: I eat this three times a week, and my fifty-plus skin looks twenty years younger.

It was all apurpose, all to make her angry enough to work her Healing on Siuan and Leane, to prove herself to the Yellows.

The family travelled to Balmoral a few days later and the clear air and dramatic landscape began to work their healing magic.

The wine served, a rich burgundy, was of the finest quality, and afterward they all sipped the traditional Benedictine liqueur, a strange-tasting, herbed cordial which Sir Anthony claimed was imbued with secret healing qualities.

She checked the knots in the jesses, too, and found that one of the birds had a festered place in its leg from top-tight knots, which she treated with cold water and a poultice of healing leaves.

Some were healing cards that felt warm, or crop-growing cards that smelt of earth, or whatever.

If every Gen were a Companion, the channels could devote themselves to healing.

Rosamond would hardly be recognised, she was so little known, but Mary had often visited Gloucester for the purpose of healing some sickness, or anointing some sore, while some of the monks had used her pots of herbage, and salves of the danewort and rue.

They bore Hanuman away to the Well, which was a room of dark tanks and healing waters in the deepest part of the house.

The doctors had begun the debridement because Lynch was still not healing properly.

As an extension of this principle, Jeremy sees in dreams the healing magic we so desperately need today to deliver us from racism, sexism and every other form of tyranny and exploitation, including war itself.

During these pauses, Curley used his druidical arts of healing to help mend wounds and restore vigor.

Boerhaave, Pare, and Fabricius Hildanus all speak of this untoward effect of venery, and in modern times Poncet has made observations at a hospital in Lyons which prove that during the process of healing wounds are unduly and harmfully influenced by coitus, and cites confirmatory instances.