| Main Entry: | heal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cure, recover |
Synonyms: |
alleviate, ameliorate, attend, bring around, compose, conciliate, convalesce, doctor, dress, fix, free, get well, harmonize, improve, knit, make healthy, make sound, make well, make whole, medicate, meliorate, mend, minister to, patch up, physic, put on feet again, reanimate, rebuild, reconcile, regenerate, rehabilitate, rejuvenate, remedy, renew, renovate, repair, restore, resuscitate, revive, revivify, salve, set, settle, soothe, treat |
Antonyms: |
harm, hurt, injure |
| Main Entry: | healing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restorative |
Synonyms: |
curative, curing, invigorating, medicinal, mending, remedial |
| Notes: | healing is a process in which an organism's health is restored; curing is a method that promotes healing |
| Main Entry: | convalescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | improving, recuperating |
Synonyms: |
ambulatory, discharged, dismissed, gaining strength, getting better, getting over something, getting well, healing, mending, on the mend, past crisis, perked up, rallying, recovering, rejuvenated, rejuvenating, released, restored, strengthening |
Antonyms: |
failing, faltering, regressing, sickly, weak, worsening |
| Main Entry: | cure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | solution to problem, often health |
Synonyms: |
aid, alleviation, antidote, assistance, catholicon, corrective, counteractant, counteragent, countermeasure, drug, elixir, elixir vitae, fix, healing, healing agent, help, medicament, medicant, medication, medicine, nostrum, panacea, pharmacon, physic, placebo, proprietary, quick fix, recovery, redress, remedy, reparation, restora-tive, therapeutic, treatment |
Antonyms: |
disease, problem |
| Main Entry: | dress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cover a wound |
Synonyms: |
attend, bandage, bind, cauterize, cleanse, give first aid, heal, plaster, sew up, sterilize, treat |
Antonyms: |
open, uncover, undress |
| Main Entry: | emollient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | soothing |
Synonyms: |
balsamic, demulcent, healing, lenitive, palliative, relieving, remedial, softening |
| Main Entry: | healthful/healthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | good for one's wellness |
Synonyms: |
advantageous, aiding, aseptic, beneficial, benign, body-building, bracing, cathartic, clean, compensatory, conducive, corrective, desirable, disease-free, energy-giving, fresh, harmless, healing, health-giving, helpful, hygienic, innocuous, invigorating, mitigative, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, profitable, pure, restorative, salubrious, salutary, sanatory, sanitary, stimulating, sustaining, tonic, unadulterated, unpolluted, untainted, useful, wholesome |
Antonyms: |
bad, corrupt, diseased, noxious, rotten, sickening, unhealthful, unhealthy |
| Main Entry: | help |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve |
Synonyms: |
alleviate, ameliorate, amend, attend, better, cure, doctor, ease, facilitate, heal, meliorate, mitigate, nourish, palliate, relieve, remedy, restore, revive, treat |
Antonyms: |
decrease, harm, hinder, hurt, injure, worsen |
| Main Entry: | knit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | intertwine |
Synonyms: |
affiliate, affix, ally, bind, cable, connect, contract, crochet, fasten, heal, interlace, intermingle, join, link, loop, mend, net, purl, repair, secure, sew, spin, tie, unite, weave, web |
| Notes: | to knit means to make a fabric or garment by intertwining yarn or thread in a series of connected loops by using knitting needles or on a machine, while a nit is the egg or young of a parasitic insect |
Antonyms: |
unknit |
| Main Entry: | mend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | correct, improve, fix |
Synonyms: |
aid, ameliorate, amend, better, condition, convalesce, cure, darn, doctor, emend, fiddle with, gain, get better, get well, heal, knit, look up, overhaul, patch, perk up, ready, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, recover, rectify, recuperate, redress, refit, reform, refurbish, rejuvenate, remedy, renew, renovate, repair, restore, retouch, revamp, revise, right, service, sew |
Antonyms: |
break, destroy, hurt, ruin, weaken |