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HEALED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Freed from illness or injury
Example:
when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
well (in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb heal
Context examples:
An international team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge found that the addition of potassium iodide ‘healed’ the defects and immobilised ion movement, which to date have limited the efficiency of cheap perovskite solar cells.
(Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost, University of Cambridge)
A rest comes very good after one has travelled three thousand miles, and it must be confessed that Buck waxed lazy as his wounds healed, his muscles swelled out, and the flesh came back to cover his bones.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
To prevent community-associated MRSA: • Practice good hygiene • Keep cuts and scrapes clean and covered with a bandage until healed • Avoid contact with other people's wounds or bandages • Avoid sharing personal items, such as towels, washcloths, razors, or clothes • Wash soiled sheets, towels, and clothes in hot water with bleach and dry in a hot dryer
(MRSA, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
It was an old scar—I should rather call it seam, for it was not discoloured, and had healed years ago—which had once cut through her mouth, downward towards the chin, but was now barely visible across the table, except above and on her upper lip, the shape of which it had altered.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I looked at her throat just now as she lay asleep, and the tiny wounds seem not to have healed.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed; and the flame of resentment extinguished.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The hunters are looking for a shooting scrape at any moment between Smoke and Henderson, whose old quarrel has not healed, while Wolf Larsen says positively that he will kill the survivor of the affair, if such affair comes off.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
No one spoke of the great trouble, not even Mrs. March, for all had learned by experience that when Jo was in that mood words were wasted, and the wisest course was to wait till some little accident, or her own generous nature, softened Jo's resentment and healed the breach.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
There are more yarns to be told, and other wounds to be healed, and another health to be drunk.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
This I learned from her benefactress; from the pious and charitable lady who adopted her in her orphan state, reared her as her own daughter, and whose kindness, whose generosity the unhappy girl repaid by an ingratitude so bad, so dreadful, that at last her excellent patroness was obliged to separate her from her own young ones, fearful lest her vicious example should contaminate their purity: she has sent her here to be healed, even as the Jews of old sent their diseased to the troubled pool of Bethesda; and, teachers, superintendent, I beg of you not to allow the waters to stagnate round her.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
